For years, teaching a robot a new job meant one of two slow paths: hand-write the control software, or collect mountains of demonstrations. A UC Berkeley roboticist now says a third path is opening, one where teams of AI agents write the robot's program, rehearse it in simulation and fix it when it fails.
Ken Goldberg, a professor of engineering at Berkeley, and Spencer Huang, director of robotics engineering at NVIDIA, call the approach agentic robotics. Berkeley News described it on Novem...
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Li-fi is a new means of delivering data using visible spectrum as against the radio waves used by most other methods. This new technology has already been tested in a functional office. What makes Li-fi stand apart is the astonishing speed at which can deliver access to the internet, often 100 times faster compared to Wi-fi at a mind-boggling speed of 1Gbps. You need a light source similar to an LED bulb, a photo detector and an internet connection to use Li-fi. The visible spectrum of light use...
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New Technology Creates “Cyborg Insects”
Scientists at the University of California demonstrated a new technology for creating "cyborg insects." That is, beetles implanted with miniaturized electronics that allows the insects to be controlled.
The flying beetle is powered by a wireless signal from a mobile transmitter that controls the insect. Varying impulses trigger an appropriate response from the beetle so that it flies according to its handler.
The movements of flying insects is controlled using a radio transmitter and a min...
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