Very interesting article on the history of energy and heat production that allowed the industrial revolution. Good reading.

Very interesting article on the history of energy and heat production that allowed the industrial revolution. Good reading.

#energy #technology #sustainability
https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-reboot-a-modern-civilisation-without-fossil-fuels?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6878559eca-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-6878559eca-68862549

Fuel cell in China...

Fuel cell in China...
https://about.bnef.com/blog/chinas-buses-bolster-ballards-three-decade-quest-for-hydrogen/

Singularity is near... Apparently sooner than I expected...

Singularity is near... Apparently sooner than I expected...

#ai

Originally shared by Hardik Patel
http://www.fonecrunch.com/2017/03/the-singularity-will-happen-by-2029-ray.html?m=1

A small step in the right direction to reduce polution.

A small step in the right direction to reduce polution.

#ev

Originally shared by International Energy Agency

Beijing may find itself earning a reputation as the hub of the electric taxi, reports the World Economic Forum
http://bit.ly/2npsbIU

"It’s a new way of controlling the robot that I actually like to think of as being natural, in the sense that we aim to have the robot adapt to what the human would like to do,” says MIT roboticist Daniela Rus, a co-author on the study

"It’s a new way of controlling the robot that I actually like to think of as being natural, in the sense that we aim to have the robot adapt to what the human would like to do,” says MIT roboticist Daniela Rus, a co-author on the study

Very interesting the communication mechanism used.

#ai

Originally shared by Ward Plunet

Baxter the Robot Fixes Its Mistakes by Reading Your Mind

The underlying technology is shiny and new and complex, but the idea is straightforward. When you notice a mistake, your brain emits a faint type of signal, known in neuroscience as an error-related potential. But that’s among all the other electrical chaos coursing through your brain that an EEG picks up, so machine learning algorithms sniff out the signal. When Baxter is about to make a mistake, the system translates the error-related potentials in the woman’s brain into code a robot understands. The human and machine are communicating at the most basic of levels—not speech but the electrical signals that prelude speech. “The paper shows an interesting capability in terms of doing this in real time,” says Carnegie Mellon roboticist Aaron Steinfeld. The researchers’ machine learning algorithms are so powerful, they can sort the error-related potentials from the other electrical noise to immediately create something the robot can comprehend.
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/baxter-robot-fixes-mistakes-reading-mind/

The 5 Jobs Robots Will Take First

The 5 Jobs Robots Will Take First
Interesting article. I would add lawyers to the list.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-jobs-robots-take-first-shelly-palmer

#ai #robots
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-jobs-robots-take-first-shelly-palmer

Great design. Inside and outside.

Great design. Inside and outside.

http://cnet.co/2loSBOd
http://cnet.co/2loSBOd