Shelfrock77

Shelfrock77 OP t1_ir56ap1 wrote

“New research from the University of Michigan proffers a way for robots to understand the mechanisms of tools, and other real-world articulated objects, by creating Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) objects that demonstrate the way these objects move, potentially allowing the robot to interact with them and use them without tedious dedicated preconfiguration.”

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Shelfrock77 OP t1_ir48609 wrote

“At the highest level, the reason we’re building Earth-2 is to be able to predict and monitor climate change, but also develop strategies to mitigate and adapt to change,” Karthik Kashinath, principal engineer at NVIDIA and engineering lead for the Earth-2 initiative”

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Shelfrock77 OP t1_iqzh9dd wrote

“Stanford University researchers have discovered a rapid and sustainable way to synthetically produce a promising cancer-fighting compound right in the lab. The compound's availability has been limited because its only currently known natural source is a single plant species that grows solely in a small rainforest region of Northeastern Australia.”

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