Collaborative robot arms from JAKA Robotics (left) and Universal Robots. Get the popcorn ready. The patent fight between Teradyne Robotics and JAKA Robotics has turned into a full-blown public brawl. Teradyne, parent company of Universal Robots, last week sued JAKA’s German subsidiary, alleging infringement of patents covering hardware and software used in its cobot arms….
NVIDIA and Hugging Face have collaborated on AI and robotics development. Source: NVIDIA After a few weeks of anticipation, NVIDIA Corp. today said it is acquiring Hugging Face Inc., an open platform for AI developers, for $12.9 billion. Founded in 2016, Hugging Face provides an open platform for AI developers. “Ten years after starting Hugging…
AI-powered robots briefly took over the European Parliament this week to showcase the continent’s creators as the bloc races to compete in a field dominated by China and the United States.
A new study finds that composite metal foam (CMF) could significantly improve automobile safety during frontal collisions. Using computational models to run detailed simulations, researchers found that incorporating CMF into automobile “front rails” would allow them to absorb more energy during high-velocity impacts.
PlusAI SuperDrive-enabled autonomous trucks at its testing facility in Fremont, Calif. Source: PlusAI PlusAI Inc., which has developed AI-based virtual driver software for autonomous trucks, is going public via a merger with Texas Ventures Acquisition III Corp., a special-purpose acquisition company or SPAC. “This transaction validates a year of significant execution and operational milestones for…
Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered a human skeleton inside a giant Roman jar. It’s likely that the individual sought shelter in the vessel during an enemy attack over 1,600 years ago but died as a fire swept through the area. The team unearthed the gigantic jar in a Late Roman turret, or small tower, in…
The patient: A 47-year-old woman in Canada The symptoms: The woman underwent a lung transplant to treat interstitial lung disease, which involves harmful inflammation and scarring of lung tissue. While recovering in the hospital, she ate a bowl of breakfast cereal, which activated a nearly two-hour episode of flushing, itching, shortness of breath and low…
A sunken World War II hospital ship off the coast of Albania has attracted both invasive devil firefish and rare Mediterranean monk seals, leading researchers to weigh the risks and benefits of these wrecks for local ecosystems. The ship, called the Po, sank off Vlora Bay in 1941 after being hit by a torpedo from…
A massive volcano erupts in Southeast Asia. Ash fall delays flights and destroys crops, while pyroclastic flows wipe out entire towns. Over the following weeks, the sulfur dioxide pumped out turns into a haze of fine acid droplets, eventually wrapping around the entire planet, scattering sunlight back to space. The sun turns pale, shadows go…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Scientists can now draw a straight line from a single oil company’s emissions to a specific disaster. Not a rough estimate of the industry’s overall contribution, but a specific company, a specific event, a specific percentage. That’s what a new peer-reviewed study published in Earth’s Future has done, and…
