March 29, 2024

Video Friday: Co-Expression

4 min read Columbia Engineering Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 17–21 April 2024, KASSEL, GERMANY AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2024: 22–25 April 2024, SAN DIEGO, CA Eurobot Open 2024: 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE ICRA 2024: 13–17 May

Evan Ackerman March 29, 2024

Nine crypto VCs on why Q1 investments were so hot and how it compares to previous bull market | TechCrunch

If the 2023 crypto venture landscape was an ice-cold pot of water, the first quarter of 2024 is the part where the bubbles start to form right before water boils, Tom Schmidt, a partner at Dragonfly Capital, said to TechCrunch. And he’s not wrong: $2.52 billion in total capital has been raised across the crypto and blockchain sectors in Q1 2024, according to PitchBook data. That’s about 25% higher than $2.02 billion in the fourth

Jacquelyn Melinek March 29, 2024

Robotics

Mecademic says Absolute Calibration services improve robot accuracy – The Robot Report

Listen to this article Mecademic Absolute Calibration is intended to improve performance, mitigate risk, and shorten robot deployment times. | Source: Mecademic Mecademic, a developer of compact, high-precision industrial robots, this week announced Mecademic Absolute Calibration, or MAC. It is a service that the company said can enhance its robots’ accuracy “out of the box.” The Montreal, Canada-based company claimed that MAC demonstrates its ability to deliver robots that meet critical precision and accuracy requirements

The Robot Report Staff March 29, 2024

Generative AI to quantify uncertainty in weather forecasting

Posted by Lizao (Larry) Li, Software Engineer, and Rob Carver, Research Scientist, Google Research Accurate weather forecasts can have a direct impact on people’s lives, from helping make routine decisions, like what to pack for a day’s activities, to informing urgent actions, for example, protecting people in the face of hazardous weather conditions. The importance of accurate and timely weather forecasts will only increase as the climate changes. Recognizing this, we at Google have been

Google AI March 29, 2024

Fusion Tech Finds Geothermal Energy Application

5 min read Millimeter wave drilling vaporizes tough basement rock without complex downhole equipment. Quaise Energy The upper 10 kilometers of the Earth’s crust contains vast geothermal reserves, essentially awaiting human energy consumption to begin to tap into its unstinting power output—which itself yields no greenhouse gasses. And yet, geothermal sources currently produce only three-tenths of one percent of the world’s electricity. This promising energy source has long been limited by the extraordinary challenges of

Tom Clynes March 29, 2024

Robotics

Medtronic to explore the future of robotic surgery at Robotics Summit – The Robot Report

Listen to this article We can only guess what surgery may look like in 50 or 100 years, but one thing will always be true: The patient and surgeon will always be at the center, according to Medtronic. And the same is true for surgeons and the technology they use. Surgical robotics isn’t about the bits or bytes; it’s about how the tools help best meet each patient’s needs to deliver the best possible outcome.

The Robot Report Staff March 29, 2024

#1ReasonToBe: Women speak to making games in emerging regions | The DeanBeat

The #1ReasonToBe panel has had a strong legacy at the GDC. It has been dormant, but the session returned at this year’s GDC.Read More

Dean Takahashi March 29, 2024

OpenAI unveils voice cloning AI model, but only for selected partners (for now)

The tech has obviously huge implications for those who record themselves speaking often, be they podcasters, voice over artists, performers.Read More

Carl Franzen March 29, 2024

Hardware

AMD Zen 5 Desktop And Mobile Ryzen CPUs Break Cover On Shipping Manifest

It’s been a year and a half since AMD launched its Socket AM5 platform and its Zen 4 desktop processors, so the time is nigh for a new generation. Most people are expecting AMD to announce its second series of Socket AM5 processors at Computex in May, and then launch them not long after. There’s a new piece of evidence for that idea thanks to a couple of well-known leakers on Xwitter who will no

Zak Killian March 29, 2024

Grasping With Common Sense

How to leverage large language models for robotic grasping and code generation Nikolaus Correll · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · 10 hours ago — Grasping and manipulation remain a hard, unsolved problem in robotics. Grasping is not just about identifying points where to put your fingers on an object to create sufficient constraints. Grasping is also about applying just enough force to pick up the object with breaking it,

Nikolaus Correll March 29, 2024