🤖 RT-2: Revolutionizing Robotics, Autonomous Robot Intelligence and Solar-Powered Gadgets
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Google is training robots the way it trains AI chatbots. Google wants to make its robots smarter with the release of the AI learning model Robotic Transformer (RT-2). RT-2 is the new version of what the company calls its vision-language-action (VLA) model. The model teaches robots to better recognize visual and language patterns to interpret instructions and infer what objects work best for the request. By Emilia David via The Verge
The Man Who Made Robots Dance Now Wants Them to Think for Themselves. Anyone currently worrying about artificial intelligence taking over the world may want to swing by the Boston Dynamics AI Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While walking around, they'd see that the robots that might lead a future uprising are still trying to tie their shoelaces, metaphorically speaking. By Will Knight via WIRED
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Ambient Photonics shows off battery-free devices with indoor solar cells. Ambient Photonics is unveiling an array of electronics powered by its pioneering low-light solar cell technology, which could herald sustainable, battery-free devices. The company’s innovative indoor solar cell technology promises to transform the landscape of electronics by converting any light source into a power supply for an assortment of connected gadgets. By Dean Takahashi via VentureBeat
Theory Venture's Tomasz Tunguz unveils 2024 predictions: AI dominance, resurging Web3, and the new normal of tech investments. At the end of 2022, like many, I made some predictions about what 2023 would bring to the technology investing ecosystem. Namely, the Fed would tame inflation, and the fundraising market would thaw, but overall, claiming that 2023 would be the first year of a “new normal” era for the markets and that machine learning would permeate most of the workflow software operators use today. By Tomasz Tunguz via TechCrunch
Huawei Teardown Shows 5nm Laptop Chip Made in Taiwan, Not China. New findings quash talk of another big Chinese advance Huawei remains at the vanguard of China's tech war with the US Huawei Technologies Co. 's newest laptop runs on a chip made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., a teardown of the device showed, quashing talk of another Chinese technological breakthrough. By Vlad Savov via Bloomberg
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