There was the battle control OpenAI. It was a fight about control of OpenAI, its board, and its direction. Now Elon wants to get more voting control of Tesla. He wants to go from 15% to 25% in order to be comfortable making Tesla the leader in AI and Robotics. I believe this is more …
In an interview with Bill Gates, Sam Altman says he is super-excited for AI applied to robotics. Sam Altman – “We have to go do this thing. This is now an unstoppable technological course. The value is too great.” Tens of billions of dollars are going into the effort to dominate technology and transform the …
2024 and every year going forward will have more and better AI. This intelligence explosion is attracting funding and resources exponentially and it revenue will go exponential. AI expert, Dr Alan Thompson, expects OpenAI to release GPT 4.5 in days and it will exceed human experts in most intelligence tests. A survey of thousands of …
University of Stanford researchers Zipeng Fu and his open source Mobile ALOHA’s hardware is very capable. Mobile ALOHA is teleoperated for now. It is low-cost open-source hardware and teleoperation system. They mount ALOHA to a mobile base designed for warehouses: Tracer AGV It can carry 100kg, move up to 1.6m/s, while costing only $7000. They …
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 …
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, …
Tesla has introduced Optimus Gen 2. • Tesla designed actuators and sensors • 2-Dof actuated neck • Actuators integrated electronics & harnessing • 30% walk speed boost • Foot force/torque sensing • 22lb (10kg) weight reduction • Better hands, able to handle eggs and other delicate work There’s a new bot in town 🤖 Check …
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 …
Astrolab’s Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) rover is shown in a rendering using its robotic arm to deploy a small plant pod on the lunar surface. The plant pod, designed by Interstellar Lab, is one of the payloads FLEX will carry to the Moon on Mission 1, which is expected to be completed as soon …
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 …
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 …