Billions for Everyone From Self-Replicating Factories

Humanity needs to simplify the technology and products for our civilization but make them fully scalable and self-replicating. The technologies that we pick to scale need to be ones that we can increase to a thousand times our current levels with manageable pollution and side-effects at those scales. We will soon have billions or trillions …

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Optimus Teslabot Ready for Mass Production ?

Dr. Scott Walker points out that the Logo usually goes on a product when prototyping is complete. There would be a huge impact for Tesla if one hundred thousands Teslabots can be made and used the Tesla factories. Usually, the logo goes on when prototyping is complete. pic.twitter.com/Y2pTyNtwPW — Scott Walter, PhD (@GoingBallistic5) December 13, …

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AI Robot Excavator Makes Six-meter-high Dry-stone Walls

ETH Zurich researchers taught an autonomous excavator to construct dry stone walls itself using boulders weighing several tonnes and demolition debris. * dry stone wall construction has involved vast amounts of manual labor. * A multidisciplinary team of ETH Zurich researchers developed a method of using an autonomous excavator to construct a dry-​stone wall that …

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Experts Predict Artificial General Intelligence July 2025 to 2031

Dr. Alan Thompson has an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) percentage tracker. Thompson’s tracker indicates that we have 56% of the capabilities for AGI now. He has fit his percentage tracker to an exponential curve and this indicates we will reach AGI July 2025. Alan Thompson Definitions for AGI and ASI AGI = artificial general intelligence …

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Figure AI CEO Talks Billions of Humanoid Robots

Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock says “If we can just get humanoids to do work that humans are not wanting to do because there’s a shortfall of humans, we can sell millions of humanoids, billions maybe.” At the moment, however, Adcock’s firm doesn’t have a prototype that’s ready for market. Figure AI raised a $70 …

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China Ministry Pushes for Humanoid Robot Mass Production by 2025 and $100+ Billion Market by 2030

China’s government is calling for the Rapid Development of Humanoid Robots. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a nine page guideline yesterday: ⦿ Establish a humanoid robot innovation system, make breakthroughs in key technologies and ensure supply of core components, by 2025 ⦿ Humanoid robots should become an important new engine of economic …

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Honeybee Robotics Lunar Ice Drill for 2024 NASA Mission

The Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) will help scientists search for water at the lunar South Pole, and will be the first in-situ resource utilization demonstration on the Moon. PRIME-1, which will be mounted to a lunar lander, is made up of two components – The Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain …

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