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Weight decomposition of atomic prototypes. The battery and frame contribute roughly a third and a quarter of the overall weight, respectively. Other (other) includes the weight contribution of the screws, nuts, and PCB that connect the motor to the ESC. Credit: The International Journal of Robotics Research (2025). doi:10.1177/02783649251344968 The team of engineers at Singapore University of Technology and Design has created truly unique robots. It can roll like a drum and take off and fly like a rotating wheel. In their paper published in the International Journal of Robotics Research, the group explains the goals in developing robots and…
When ultimate founders Sammy Sidhu and Jay Cheer were working as software engineers in Lyft’s self-driving car program, they witnessed issues with brewing data infrastructure. Self-driving cars generate a large amount of unstructured data, from 3D scans and photos to text and audio. There was no tool for LYFT engineers that could understand and process all of these different types of data at the same time. This allowed engineers to piece together open source tools in a long process with reliability issues. “We got all these great PhDs and had great people from the entire industry, we’re working on self-driving…
After spending the last five years of spending festivals across the US educating people about electric cars, the Electrify Expo launches a demo experience where people can bring their EV home over the weekend. The first company to partner with was Tesla, and Electrify Expo CEO BJ Birtwell said more brands will join in the near future. “It’s an opportunity for Electrify Expo participants to have non-sales experience with electric vehicles to use electric vehicles, run errands and see if this vehicle actually makes sense to them,” Birtwell said in an interview. When you drive an electric vehicle for the…
My top 101 to see on Wednesday, June 25th. The best watch of Nvidia’s history today. The AI chip giant stock closed at $147.90 yesterday, with a record of less than $149.43 on January 6th at under $2. We will be discussing the remaining portfolios of Nvidia and the club at our monthly meeting at noon ET. The Nvidia shareholders meeting is also today. 2. LoopCapital has raised Nvidia’s price target from $175 to $250 per share. That means an incredible $6 trillion market capitalization. Analysts said that by 2028 there will be $2 trillion in generated AI calculation spending,…
Shropshire farmers banned animals for five years and did not test cows with TB after a series of serious welfare violations.Inspectors at the Shropshire Council found that the conditions of the Whixhall Farm run by Stuart Furber were far below acceptable welfare standards. Livestock were able to discard metals and other dangerous farm debris, and animals were kept in inappropriately mixed groups, including male and female calves and adult cows without taking advantage of dry, drained, lying areas.Farber was sentenced June 16th at Telford Magistrates Court, where he was previously found guilty of five crimes relating to cow welfare and…
US Coco Gauff lifted the winner’s trophy on June 7, 2025 in the final of the women’s singles tournament at Philippe Chatelier Court at the 2025 French Open Tennis Tournament in Paris, France, after her victory over Alina Sabalenka.SIPA via AP ImageThe Tennis Channel is expanding its contract with the Women’s Tennis Association, where cable television networks and streaming services continue to broadcast more than 2,000 games per season.The terms of the contract have not been made clear, but Tennis Channel CEO Jeff Blackburn told CNBC in an interview that there will be a “substantial step up in payments” for…
A former U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyer has released a whistleblower complaint accusing the court’s deliberate ignorance of a possible court order that could hinder U.S. President Donald Trump’s massive deportation campaign. On Tuesday, representatives from Erez Roubeni submitted a 35-page complaint letter detailing the lawyer’s claim against the Trump administration. It is a process that has fostered concerns about rights violations as it sees the debate and divisions unfolding behind the scenes of the Department of Justice, defends efforts to arrest and rapidly deport non-citizens. Members of the Trump administration “engage in illegal activities, abuse their authority; [and]…
Mark Latte of Donald Trump, executive director of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) at the NAGO Summit held in The Hague, Netherlands on Wednesday, June 25th, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe NATO allies on Thursday agreed to more than double their defensive spending targets of 2% to 5% of gross domestic product, in the most decisive move from the alliance for more than a decade.In the joint declaration, the alliance said it was “united in the face of serious security threats and challenges.” In particular, the long-term threat poses by Russia to the “permanent threat” of Euro-Atlantic…
(Reuters) – President Donald Trump said Tuesday that China could continue to buy oil from Iran after the US bombed OPEC members’ nuclear facilities, hoping that China would buy “a lot” of it from the US. “China can now continue to buy oil from Iran. Hopefully they’ll buy a lot from the US as well,” he said in a post about Truth Society. Trump’s post comes after he announced that Iran and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire after bombing three nuclear facilities over the weekend. He scolded both countries for an early violation of a ceasefire. Earlier in the…
If you can predict that new technology will not be adopted, there is a lot of money to save. Saran Shayf and his colleagues have developed a tool that can predict this. Credit: Mads Wang-Svendsen There is something paradoxical about its relationship to technology. We have a very high hope that new technology will solve the biggest challenges of our time. At the same time, we are often skeptical of using new technology solutions. When new technology fails, it’s not because it doesn’t always work as intended. Sometimes people simply don’t want to use it. Some researchers believe this should…