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WalkON Suit F1: The Next-Gen Exoskeleton That Walks Itself - YouTube (youtube.com)
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Qwen, a Chinese open-source AI, is on a par with or ahead of all the western investor funded AI's. (www.ai-supremacy.com)
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A Space Walking Robot Could Build a Giant Telescope in Space (www.universetoday.com)
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Microplastics promote cloud formation, with likely effects on weather and climate (pubs.acs.org)
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MIT Researchers demonstrate an advance is training robots in virtual environments, which may speed robotics development. (lucidsim.github.io)
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The amp Fitness Machine Uses AI to Personalize Every Workout (design-milk.com)
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I feel like this is the future, but with all things AI at the moment, it's probably just a money grab.

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Trump’s win is a tragic loss for climate progress (www.technologyreview.com)
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The global fertility crisis: are fewer babies a good or a bad thing? Experts are divided (www.theguardian.com)
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Archer Aviation signs a joint venture with Soracle to bring eVTOL air taxi services to Japan (electrek.co)
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Japan is building a self-driving transport corridor to automate cargo transport between Tokyo and Osaka and wants to extend the system to the whole country. (www.theguardian.com)
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Climate change is contributing to drought in the American West even without rainfall deficits, scientists find (phys.org)
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Robotics maker Physical Intelligence, shows its π0 system which aims to create a universal model to understand natural language commands across any robotic platform. (www.physicalintelligence.company)
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Plant-animal hybrid cells make solar-powered tissues, organs or meat (newatlas.com)
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China tests passenger jet prototype at Mach 4, 2x Concorde's speed (interestingengineering.com)
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Japan's Mount Fuji Has Now Remained Snowless for the Longest Time in Its 130-Year Record (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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This Polish radio station fired all its journalists and replaced them with AI hosts -- and people are furious (www.zmescience.com)
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New research shows a Keto Diet may be effective treatment for a range of autoimmune disorders. (medicalxpress.com)
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Future space telescopes could be made from thin membranes, unrolled in space to enormous size. (phys.org)
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Robotics is Inching Towards it ChatGPT Moment (thesequence.substack.com)
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Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct (med.stanford.edu)
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We've seen particles that are massless only when moving one direction (www.newscientist.com)
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New cyanobacteria strains could sequester carbon (wyss.harvard.edu)
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A Lost Mayan City Has Been Found With Laser Mapping (www.wired.com)
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On Bluesky and enshittification (fediversereport.com)
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Meta has open-sourced advanced robotics AI, and it points to a future of cheap, plentiful, commoditized robots available to everyone, and not controlled by elites or corporations. (futurology.today)
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Boston Dynamics latest demo of its humanoid robot Atlas shows the day when robots can do most unskilled and semi-skilled work is getting closer. At the current rate of development that may be as soon as 2030.

Many people's ideas of the future are shaped by dystopian narratives from sci-fi. For storytelling purposes they always dramatize things to be the worst possible. But they are a poor way of predicting the future.

UBTECH, a Chinese manufacturer's $16,000 humanoid robot is a better indicator of where things are going. The sci-fi dystopian view of the future is that mega-corps will own and control the robots and 99% of humanity will be reduced to serfdom.

All the indications are that things are going in the opposite direction. The more likely scenario is that people will be able to purchase several humanoid robots for the price of an average car. It's not inconceivable that average people will be able to afford robots to grow their own food (if they have some land), maintain their houses, and do additional work for them.

Meta's Open Source Robotics AI

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