A team of researchers at the Technical University in Delft, Netherlands and the Swiss technical university EPFL used ChatGPT to help them develop a tomato-picking robot. A study about the development of the robot was recently published in Nature Machine Intelligence. The post Researchers use ChatGPT to make a tomato picking robot appeared first on The […]
Expanding a GPU cluster is far from straightforward, especially as generative AI has accelerated shortages. NVIDIA A100 GPUs were some of the first to be impacted (reported increases by up to 40% above MSRP according to WCCFtech) and they are now so scarce that the lead time for some versions is up to a year. These supply […]
Quantum computing is in the midst of the so-called NISQ era – a time of noisy intermediate scale quantum devices based a variety of qubit modalities, all of which are too error-prone for practical computing. While the qubit zoo keeps growing – superconducting, trapped ions, neutral atoms, photonics, spin qubits, and more – its members […]
If you have an interest in robot safety of industrial robots, you don’t have to search far to find videos of industrial robots flawlessly stopping upon collision with various obstacles – this could be anything from people to water bottles or balloons. The common message is along the lines of “see how safe our robot […]
Inspired by how our body’s motor proteins facilitate tasks like muscle contraction and cellular migration, scientists have been looking for efficient ways to convert chemical energy (the energy stored in substances) into useful mechanical work. By understanding and harnessing the mechanisms that nature uses, we can develop new technologies and advancements with implications in areas […]
To better predict the specifics of these storms, researchers at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) recently used Expanse at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego and Stampede2 supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to closely examine the role of convection in global energy distribution. The post Supercomputer Simulations Generate […]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists recently combined large-scale molecular dynamics simulations with machine learning interatomic potentials derived from first-principles calculations to examine the hydrogen bonding of water confined in carbon nanotubes (CNTs). They found that the narrower the diameter of the CNT, the more the water structure is affected in a highly complex and […]
Researchers at Meta AI and Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) have been working with Boston Dynamics‘ Spot quadruped to push the robot to new heights. Their research resulted in two significant breakthroughs toward creating general-purposed embodied AI agents that are capable of performing challenging sensorimotor skills. The post Inside Meta’s research with Boston Dynamics’ Spot appeared […]
Sustainability in high-performance computing (HPC) has been on everyone’s mind lately. In the most recent survey from Hyperion Research, sustainability and energy efficiency rose to the top of priority lists for many HPC datacenter procurement plans, second only to performance, even more imperative than price. The post How Do We Make Supercomputing Operations More Sustainable […]
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have created a robot that can swim under the sand and dig itself out. The robot has two front limbs that mimic the oversized flippers of turtle hatchlings. The post This turtle-inspired robot can dig through sand appeared first on The Robot Report.
