There's a huge amount of humanoid robots in development, this list though long, I'm sure is missing some.
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Lab-grown chicken ‘nuggets’ hailed as ‘transformative step’ for cultured meat
(www.theguardian.com)
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Tiny brain sensor shows 96.4% accuracy in identifying neural signals
(interestingengineering.com)
The €60 million in funding isn't much, though ten times more than what DeepSeek said they needed.
I suspect we're on a path where more and more American AI, as it embraces Orwellian police state/autocratic tendencies at home, will be outlawed in Europe.
Western countries rejected the state having a large role in their economies in the 1980s and ushered in the era of neoliberal economics, where everything would be left to the market. That logic dictated it was cheaper to manufacture things where wages were low, and so tens of millions of manufacturing jobs disappeared in the West.
Fast-forward to the 2020s and the flaws in neoliberal economics seem all too apparent. Deindustrialization has made the Western working class poorer than their parents' generation. But another flaw has become increasingly apparent - by making China the world's manufacturing superpower, we seem to be making them the world's technological superpower too.
Furthermore, this seems to be setting up a self-reinforcing virtuous cycle. EVs, batteries, lidar, drones, robotics, smartphones, AI - China seems to be becoming the leader in them all, and the development of each is reinforcing the development of all the others.
Where does this leave the Western economic model - is it time it copies China's style of capitalism?
This is what is being banned.
- AI used for social scoring (e.g., building risk profiles based on a person’s behavior).
- AI that manipulates a person’s decisions subliminally or deceptively.
- AI that exploits vulnerabilities like age, disability, or socioeconomic status.
- AI that attempts to predict people committing crimes based on their appearance.
- AI that uses biometrics to infer a person’s characteristics, like their sexual orientation.
- AI that collects “real time” biometric data in public places for the purposes of law enforcement.
- AI that tries to infer people’s emotions at work or school.
- AI that creates — or expands — facial recognition databases by scraping images online or from security cameras.
Almost everything on this list is outlawing what an authoritarian regime would want. How long before the EU bans the American Big Tech AI, that it seems is toadying to Trump to enable it.
My guess is it will be the Chinese.
I know some people say the excellence of SpaceX's engineers is unaffected by him, but the anti-science dolts and frauds providing "leadership" to America, especially the one who owns SpaceX - has to drag their efforts down to some extent.
Even before the recent change in administration, China's Moon plans were more detailed and thought out than the US's.
Renewables+batteries have almost wiped out the nuclear industry, now geothermal power may be about to put the final nail in that coffin. New research published in Nature magazine shows drilling times are falling so swiftly, that by 2027 geothermal power will be able to deliver a levelized cost of electricity (US$80 MWh). That's price competitive with nuclear, but that's not the real killer for the nuclear industry.
Although some locations (like Iceland) are very suited to geothermal, many places are just fine too. Geothermal can be built widely all over the world - more crucially, it can be built quickly and to a dependable budget.
The nuclear industry's sole surviving argument was it could provide base load power - but so can geothermal. It will now be vastly more appealing to investors and governments than building new nuclear power, which may be an industry about to go into the last stages of its death spiral.
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The crash is gonna be the mother of all crashes.
100%. When it happens on Trump's watch, I wonder will Trump take over the Federal Reserve? And start money printing trillions to rescue the stock market?
Erdogan has bankrupted Turkey with hyperinflation and his minions still love him.
Trump had bankrupted every business he's ever owned, it would be on brand for him to bankrupt America and the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
And the stock still gained almost 5% since yesterday when they also announced revenue was down,
I wonder are they assuming he'll be able to siphon hundreds of billions of government money?
The TrumpMelania memecoins are 100% brazen corruption with zero pushback, these people must think there's nothing to stop them.
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Not necessarily. Using external magnetic fields, if 1000s of tiny environmental drone monitors could be powered over areas the size of square kms, then it may make such tiny monitoring robots more cost effective than ones needing batteries.
Because they are not, as Silicon Valley/American thinking would have it, trying to "win" some AI Arms Race measured in stock market valuations.
This is so European governments & their civil service, educational institutions, the EU itself has an AI untainted by either American or Chinese values, and also independent of either of them.