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Jun 28, 2023

Chinese ‘breakthrough’ allows making alloys with diverse metals at lower temperatures

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The simplicity of the approach stumped even reviewers of the journal Nature and needed further proof to be believed.

Researchers at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences at Wuhan University in China have achieved a significant ‘breakthrough’ in materials science that allows alloys to be made from a diverse range of metals and at much lower temperatures than conventional methods, the South China Morning Post.

Since the Bronze Age, alloys have contributed to the advancement of our civilization. Modern-day applications of alloys involve creating and manufacturing high-entropy alloys (HEAs) composed of five or more metallic elements.

Jun 28, 2023

DeepMind’s New Self-Improving Robot Is Quick to Adapt and Learn Fresh Skills

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

While autonomous robots have started to move out of the lab and into the real world, they remain fragile. Slight changes in the environment or lighting conditions can easily throw off the AI that controls them, and these models have to be extensively trained on specific hardware configurations before they can carry out useful tasks.

This lies in stark contrast to the latest LLMs, which have proven adept at generalizing their skills to a broad range of tasks, often in unfamiliar contexts. That’s prompted growing interest in seeing whether the underlying technology—an architecture known as a transformer—could lead to breakthroughs in robotics.

In new results, researchers at DeepMind showed that a transformer-based AI called RoboCat can not only learn a wide range of skills, it can also readily switch between different robotic bodies and pick up new skills much faster than normal. Perhaps most significantly, it’s able to accelerate its learning by generating its own training data.

Jun 27, 2023

In a Major Advance, Scientists Reprogram Skin Cells to Become Placenta

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

In an organism, different kinds of cells carry out specific, specialized functions. Scientists can grow and study various types of cells in the lab. For a long time, a source of many of those cell lines were cancer samples that could be easily cultured over many generations. But those cells were not always representative of a particular cell type. Now, following huge breakthroughs, scientists learned how to create stem cells from adult skin cells. This has allowed scientists to utilize adult cells like those from the skin to create induced pluripotent cells (iPSCs), which can then be made into virtually any cell type.

The creation of so-called iPSCs was made possible through changing gene expression in cells, often with certain molecules or specialized proteins. Cells can also now be directly reprogrammed in some ways, without needing to bring them to a pluripotent state. The number of cell types that can be generated in this way is also expanding, bringing new insights into how specialized cells function.

Jun 27, 2023

High-performance computing, AI and cognitive simulation helped LLNL conquer fusion ignition

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

Part 10 a series of articles describing the elements of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s fusion breakthrough.

For hundreds of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists on the design, experimental, and modeling and simulation teams behind inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the results of the now-famous Dec. 5, 2022, ignition shot didn’t come as a complete surprise.

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Jun 27, 2023

MRNA Technology Future

Posted by in categories: futurism, innovation

Collaboration, innovation, and partnership are key to more efficient, accessible, and scalable mRNA technology.

Jun 26, 2023

Innovations in Measuring Community Perceptions Challenge

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Harness the power of data technology to help police be accountable, effective, and inclusive of all communities. Enter the Innovations in Measuring Community Perceptions Challenge by July 31 and win prizes totaling $175,000.


Webinar NIJ hosted a webinar to discuss this challenge on June 6. Review the transcript and presentation slides.

Jun 23, 2023

Ultrafast beam-steering breakthrough at Sandia Labs

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a major breakthrough in the fields of nanophotonics and ultrafast optics, a Sandia National Laboratories research team has demonstrated the ability to dynamically steer light pulses from conventional, so-called incoherent light sources.

Jun 22, 2023

Digital Twins For Warehouses

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

The above considerations have to be carefully factored in while selecting the approach to model different subsystems and modules, hardware or physics-based twins in the digital twin.

Data recording and logging are crucial components of any digital twin project. This data not only serves as the basis for simulation and testing but also facilitates debugging, system optimization and performance analysis. Effective data recording strategies can also assist in the validation of model assumptions, further enhancing system accuracy and reliability.

Digital twins are not merely simulation tools; they represent a fundamental shift in the way we can plan, design, deploy and optimize robotic automation systems in warehouses. A well-designed digital twin, factoring in the aspects outlined in this article, empowers reliable, predictable and efficient order fulfillment, catalyzing innovation and progress in customer satisfaction.

Jun 20, 2023

Open-source AI chatbots are booming — what does this mean for researchers?

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

Freely accessible large language models have accelerated the pace of innovation, computer scientists say.

Jun 19, 2023

Is OpenSource AI Threatening The Tech Titans?

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Open-source AI can be defined as software engineers collaborating on various artificial intelligence projects that are open to the public to develop. The goal is to better integrate computing with humanity. In early March, the open source community got their hands on Meta’s LLaMA which was leaked to the public. In barely a month, there are very innovative OpenSource AI model variants with instruction tuning, quantization, quality improvements, human evals, multimodality, RLHF, etc.

Open-source models are faster, more customizable, more private, and capable. They are doing things with $100 and 13B params that even market leaders are struggling with. One open-source solution, Vicuna, is an… More.


This article explores AI in the context of open-sourced alternatives and highlights market dynamics in play.

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