Solar Power on a Rainy Day
Solar power has achieved continuous improvement in efficiency. The demand is strong as consumer and business interest grows. I would love to implement Elon Musk’s vision at my summer home in Pennsylvania. The vision would include Tesla roof shingles which look like regular shingles but which contain solar cells. they are now available for sale. […]
World’s Largest 3D-printed boat
The University of Maine has printed a 25-foot, 5,000-pound, fully seaworthy boat using the world’s largest 3D printer. The 70 feet long printer uses plastic polymer pellets to form the “ink” for printing. It consumes up to 500 pounds of it per hour. The boat was printed in one solid piece resulting from non-stop printing […]
Meet a Creepy Dog Robot
Marc Raibert believes the impact of robots will be greater than the Internet. He is one of the few who has the credibility to make such a statement. In 1980, Marc founded the Carnegie Mellon University Leg Lab. He is a professor at CMU and MIT. In 1992, he founded Boston Dynamics, a world leader […]
Is Tesla a Software Company?
Tesla delivered 97,000 new cars in the quarter just ended on 9/30. Most of them were the Model 3 (which my wife has). Whether model 3, model S, or Model X, they all use basically the same software, just like different models of the iPhone all use iOS. When a new version of the Tesla […]
How Smart is an AI Anyway?
Researchers at the Allen Institute have hit an artificial-intelligence milestone: a machine that is ready for high school science. Maybe even college. Source: A Breakthrough for A.I. Technology: Passing an 8th-Grade Science Test – The New York Times Five years ago, the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen, the 1975 co-founder of Microsoft alongside Bill Gates, […]
