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I navigated San Francisco in 1998 with a map and a compass a few years before I got my first GPS. I found the steep terrain and narrowness of the streets with cars parked on both sides of every street highly pucker inducing. I think it would be fatal to have to learn to drive a standard transmission car there.

Here is a very impressive demonstration of Tesla's Beta Full Self Driving capability in the complex San Francisco driving environment. A work in progress, but improving with every AI controlled mile.

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Alphabet Puts Prototype Robots To Work Cleaning Up Google's Offices - Slashdot

The company announced today that its Everyday Robots Project -- a team within its experimental X labs dedicated to creating "a general-purpose learning robot" -- has moved some of its prototype machines out of the lab and into Google's Bay Area campuses to carry out some light custodial tasks...
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Arms on wheels they call it. I saw that in DEMON SEED in the 70’s…a prosthetic limb on an electric wheelchair that was a Waldo.
 
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Israel’s Elbit, Roboteam unveil ‘Rook’ ground robot

The companies say Rook is a multi-payload military vehicle that features “unique design and built-in autonomy suite offering a combination of greater capacity, improved maneuverability and must-have on-field agility that are key for greater mission effectiveness.”
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Hope it checks to see if the stall is occupied before turning on the spigots!

(Evil Robot Brain: The Humans are most vulnerable when they are seated with their pants around their ankles....)
 
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German weapons maker Rheinmetall unveils new robo-tank

German technology firm Rheinmetall announced on Friday it had developed a new robotic ground vehicle based on the Wiesel platform. As noted by the German weapons maker, the Wiesel vehicle is equipped with a high-tech autonomy kit. Rheinmetall’s Autonomous Combat Warrior Wiesel is driven by a...
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I mentioned this a while back, but this line caught my eye:

Velox produces around three times as much thrust per unit of energy expended as a typical small boat’s propeller can manage

Then this:

Submarines are often detected by the noise they make, much of which comes from the propeller and the shaft driving it. Undulatory propulsion, moving more water at lower speed, should be quieter than any propeller. Nor does it involve a noisy phenomenon called cavitation

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Nature does not use propellers. So why do people?

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Apex predator of the Cambrian, an Anomalocarid. Some were giants at almost a metre long. Artist's impression of juvenile (foreground) and adult (background) Lyrarapax unguispinus hunt...jpg
 
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Researchers Teach Human Brain Cells In a Dish To Play 'Pong' - Slashdot

Slashdot reader Hmmmmmm quotes a report from Futurism: Researchers at the biotechnology startup Cortical Labs have created "mini-brains" consisting of 800,000 to one million living human brain cells in a petri dish, New Scientist reports. The cells are placed on top of a microelectrode array...
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Hyundai's claiming you can use telefactors/telepresence/teleoperators to pet your dog or cat remotely. Considering how essential smell is to these animals, it's likely that they'd run at maximum speed out of Uncanny Valley. However, other applications such as planetary exploration and development are far more promising. It's not a new idea of course, but the fact that a major industrial corporation wants to establish itself as a leader in the field is exciting.

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Hyundai Wants To Use Robotics To Help You Pet Your Dog From Hundreds Of Miles Away | Carscoops

Hyundai wants to turn your car into a 3D entertainment space and allow you to pet your dog with a robot
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Oh, and of course there's 'Meta' in there.
 
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This year's BBC Reith Lectures are on the theme 'Living with AI'.

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BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Stuart Russell - Living With Artificial Intelligence - Available now

Available episodes of Stuart Russell - Living With Artificial Intelligence
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The second is 'AI in Warfare'. You can download the audio and a pdf transcript here:

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BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Stuart Russell - Living With Artificial Intelligence, AI in warfare

Stuart Russell warns of the dangers of developing autonomous weapon systems
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Those truckers getting in the way of medical research…on a similar note, a Marin county TV listing had this to say of The Wizard of Oz: “Trapped in a surreal landscape, a farm girl kills the first person she meets and teams up with three strangers to kill again.”
 
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Kawasaki's Rideable Robotic Goat Is the Electric Car for Wandering Cowpokes

Unlike Boston Dynamics' Spot, Kawasaki's robotic Ibex is ready for human passengers.
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Officially revealed at the 2022 International Robot Exhibition (iREX) in Tokyo this past week, Bex is an offshoot of Kawasaki’s Kaleido program which, since 2015, has been working on developing bi-pedal humanoid robots.
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