ViDAR (Visual Detection and Ranging), the world's first Optical Radar, is a maritime wide area optical search system proven to operate up to Sea State 6. ViDAR autonomously finds objects on the surface of the ocean over vastly greater areas than traditional search methods. ViDAR operates optically so it is unaffected by white caps and other effects that impact technology such as radar. Day and Night, ViDAR is able to detect objects that are very small – much beyond the capability of the...

Researchers have made an exotic quantum object called an Alice ring, which changes the properties of other quantum objects when they pass through it – or when they are simply viewed through it. Researchers manipulated thousands of extremely cold atoms to make a ring-like defect that can change the properties of quantum objects that pass through it. Scientists from Aalto University in Finland and Amherst College in Massachusetts created a bizarre quantum object known as an ‘Alice ring.’ An...

Archer and United have chosen Newark Liberty International Airport to Downtown Manhattan Heliport as the first route to utilize Archer’s electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) to provide safe, quick, quiet and cost effective transportation for airline passengersRoute estimated to take less than 10 minutes via Archer’s all-electric Midnight™ aircraftThe two companies plan to launch the initial routes by electrifying existing aviation infrastructure in and around the New York Met...

3D bioprinting is a technology that mixes bioinks with living cells to print natural tissue-like structures in three dimensions. This new technology provides the most human-like skin model for studying inflammatory conditions such as atopic dermatitis — more commonly known as eczema — a chronic inflammatory skin condition that causes dry, itchy and inflamed skin. The 3D bioprinting skin procedure, applications and limitations are described in a review article in Regenerative Biomaterials. Sa...

Yucheng Luan at start-up firm East Eight Energy in China, Li and their colleagues created an energy-harvesting device just 1-centimetre square, which consists of a top and bottom electrode with several 25-nanometre-wide strands of zinc oxide attached to each. The material was chosen for its ability to generate electrical charge under mechanical deformation. “We thought it would be interesting and meaningful to see if this motion can be harvested and converted into electricity,” says Wei Li a...

Storing data on glass might sound futuristic, but it’s a concept that dates back to the 19th century when single photographic negatives were preserved on panes of glass. Fast forward to today, technology has remarkably expanded the storage capabilities of this sustainable material. A small sheet of glass can now hold several terabytes of data, enough to store approximately 1.75 million songs or 13 years’ worth of music. Data that needs to be stored long-term is growing exponentially. Existin...

Consciousness could be the result of an optimization of information processing. How consciousness arises from the organization of matter. The idea that consciousness could be the result of an optimization of information processing is a hypothesis or theory put forth by some researchers and philosophers. This perspective is often associated with a viewpoint in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science known as "Integrated Information Theory" (IIT), developed by neuroscientist Giulio Tononi...

Orange Pi is a series of single-board computers (SBCs) produced by Shenzhen Xunlong Software, a Chinese company. These SBCs are similar to the more well-known Raspberry Pi but come in various models with different features and hardware specifications. They are typically used for DIY electronics projects, education, and other applications where a compact and affordable computing platform is needed. Orange Pi is a leading global provider of open source hardware and open source software, dedica...

Earth Species Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to decoding animal communication, is at the forefront of this groundbreaking research. By leveraging machine learning, advanced signal processing, and artificial intelligence, they aim to develop a comprehensive understanding of non-human communication and foster empathy between humans and other species. Their ambitious goal is to create open-source AI tools to translate animal languages, paving the way for meaningful interspecies d...

New wearable device can help halve your stress symptoms Wellness device company Roga secures partnerships, funding since joining Velocity New wearable device can help halve your stress symptoms Roga develops new wearable mental wellness deviceThe device is connected to an app that deploys AI to deliver personalised, guided meditations Roga, a company that recently joined Velocity, University of Waterloo’s startup incubator, has developed a wearable mental wellness device, giving...

Using a pretrained AI model from NVIDIA, startup Evozyne created two proteins with significant potential in healthcare and clean energy. A joint paper released today describes the process and the biological building blocks it produced. One aims to cure a congenital disease, another is designed to consume carbon dioxide to reduce global warming. Initial results show a new way to accelerate drug discovery and more. “It’s been really encouraging that even in this first round...

AI researchers created a real-world “robodog” able to leap, climb, crawl, and squeeze past physical barriers as never before. They leveraged Machine learning techniques to achieve this. AI researchers at Stanford University and Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute say they have developed a new vision-based algorithm that helps robodogs scale high objects, leap across gaps, crawl under thresholds, and squeeze through crevices – and then bolt to the next challenge. The algorithm represents the brains of ...

It's your personal AI, designed to be supportive, smart, and there for you anytime. It's name stands for 'personal intelligence', because it provide infinite knowledge based on your unique interests. It can be a coach, confidante, creative partner, sounding board and assistant. Inflection is an AI studio and the creators of Pi. The Inflection team includes some of the industry’s top AI experts who previously worked at DeepMind, Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI. “Inflection-1”, in-house...

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense technology company whose mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. In pursuit of this mission, Shield AI is building the world’s best AI pilot. Its AI pilot, Hivemind, has flown a fighter jet (F-16), a vertical takeoff and landing drone (V-BAT), and a quadcopter (Nova). V-BAT. Securing borders, hunting drugs, finding threats. Shield AI's V-BAT is the future of next-generation UAS. The most tactical, most logistically s...

Diffusion Policy, a new way of generating robot behavior by representing a robot's visuomotor policy as a conditional denoising diffusion process. Team benchmarked 'Diffusion Policy' across 12 different tasks from 4 different robot manipulation benchmarks and find that it consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art robot learning methods with an average improvement of 46.9%. Diffusion Policy learns the gradient of the action-distribution score function and iteratively optimizes with ...

NExT-GPT has been developed by researchers at the National University of Singapore and Tsinghua University. NExT-GPT can accept inputs in different formats and deliver responses according to the desired output. This means that you can put in a text prompt and NExT-GPT and can process that prompt into a video, or you can give it an image and have that converted to an audio output, or Input Text and have the output available in Text, Image, and Audio. It allows 'any to any' combinations of...

Galvorn is stronger than steel, lighter than aluminum, and has the conductivity of copper, according to an article on LinkedIn. While the jury is still out on whether it’s faster than a speeding bullet, experts at Houston-based DexMat suggest their product can revolutionize the green tech landscape. Galvorn can be an alternative to rare and expensive copper — a crucial metal in electronics, according to a report from GreenBiz. What's more, the inventors plan to displace dirty materials, cont...

Echo Frames and Carrera Smart Glasses have been completely reconfigured for an enhanced audio experience. All styles include a new custom-built speaker driver and redesigned open-ear audio architecture that delivers three times the bass with improved audio quality and balance, compared to the previous generation. New smart glasses with Alexa—available in the next-generation Echo Frames and new styles from Carrera—a combination of high-end fashion with Alexa artificial intelligence (AI). Feat...

Apptronik, a Texas-based robotics company with its roots in the Human Centered Robotics Lab at University of Texas at Austin. Apptronik has developed a next-generation general purpose robots designed to change the way we live and work. Apollo, a humanoid robot built to work alongside people in environments designed for people, culminated from the design and development of over 10general purpose robots including extensive work on NASA Valkyrie. Apptronik Unveils Apollo, A Humanoid Robot to...

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is an intergovernmental organization dedicated to molecular biology research and is supported by 28 member states, one prospect state, and one associate member state. Using the AlphaFold database and a new algorithm called Foldseek Cluster, researchers have analysed over 200 million predicted protein structures, identifying unique evolutionary patterns. The study uncovers new insights into the evolution of human immunity proteins by reveali...

A newly engineered camera that can capture 4.8 million frames per second has been developed - at a fraction of the cost of its commercial contemporaries. This camera's capability to capture dynamic events in a single exposure at a staggering 4.8 million frames per second is indeed groundbreaking. It's worth noting that advancements in high-speed imaging technology have been instrumental in fields such as physics, biology, and materials science, enabling researchers to gain insights into f...

MPT-30B-Chat is a chatbot-like model for dialogue generation. It was built by finetuning MPT-30B on the ShareGPT-Vicuna, Camel-AI , GPTeacher, Guanaco, Baize and some generated datasets. License: CC-By-NC-SA-4. (non-commercial use only) Demo on Hugging Face Spaces. This model was trained by MosaicML and follows a modified decoder-only. Since the launch of MPT-7B in May, the ML community has eagerly embraced open-source MosaicML Foundation Series models. The MPT-7B base, -Instruct, -Chat, and...

Satlas is a platform for visualizing and downloading global geospatial data products generated by AI using satellite images. Currently, it includes three types of data: marine infrastructure (offshore wind turbines and platforms), renewable energy infrastructure (onshore wind turbines and solar farms), and tree cover, but we hope to include many more over time. All of the data displayed in Satlas, along with training data and model weights, can be downloaded for offline analysis here. Da...

Dictador is the ultimate Art-House Spirit company. It offers an unrivalled, award-winning offering in ultra-premium Colombian aged spirits, coffee and Dominican cigars to a discerning worldwide clientele. It being frontiers of technology, it now has a first AI empowered robot CEO, 'Mika', who is responsible for data insight, strategic provocation and DAO community liaison. MIKA shared the company's creative initiative to blend unique combinations of art, technology, and long-term investme...

Segment Anything Model (SAM) produces high quality object masks from input prompts such as points or boxes, and it can be used to generate masks for all objects in an image. It has been trained on a dataset of 11 million images and 1.1 billion masks, and has strong zero-shot performance on a variety of segmentation tasks. SAM uses a variety of input prompts Prompts specifying what to segment in an image allow for a wide range of segmentation tasks without the need for additional train...

How Artificial Intelligence Gave a Paralyzed Woman Her Voice Back Breakthrough brain implant and digital avatar allow stroke survivor to speak with facial expressions for first time in 18 years. By Robin Marks and Laura Kurtzman At the age of 30, Ann suffered a brainstem stroke that left her severely paralyzed. She lost control of all the muscles in her body and was unable even to breathe. It came on suddenly one afternoon, for reasons that are still mysterious. For the next five ye...