Author: Nigel Pereira

While a lot of people called the video a hoax, both the Shanghai showroom owners and the manufacturers of the robots say the video is authentic, adding that the little robot somehow hacked their system! Could it be possible that we all just witnessed the first robot mutiny? In a recent development, Claude AI, an LLM that many consider to be better than ChatGPT for specific tasks, has apparently exhibited behavior consistent with what human beings would call boredom! That’s right, Claude AI, developed by Anthropic, apparently paused a coding demonstration to browse nature photos on the internet, more specifically,…

With the liquid Hydrogen engine being called a “great success,” Toyota has continued investing in the research and development of H2 fueled engines and announced a major breakthrough last month. In an interesting development, it looks like the world’s largest automaker firmly believes that Hydrogen is the future of the automobile industry, not electric vehicles. While Toyota isn’t by any means shutting down their EV operations, they’re cutting back production by about 30% due to low demand while doubling down on their hydrogen fuel projects. In fact, Toyota already has a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (FCV) that’s currently in its…

Dani Clode, the creator of the third thumb, believes humans need to move forward from viewing prosthetics as replacements and instead view them as possible extensions of the human body. If you’ve watched the hit series Twisted Metal and thought Stephanie Beatriz’s prosthetic metal finger was cool enough to lose a digit for, you may not have to. Dani Clode, the creator of the third thumb, believes humans need to move forward from viewing prosthetics as replacements and instead view them as possible extensions of the human body. She also points out on her website that the origin of the…

With two separate “breakthrough” developments that are both poised to revolutionize the world of ophthalmology, the world could soon change for people who are visually impaired or even born blind. Earlier this year we posted an article featuring “Acoustic-Touch” smart glasses that use spatial sounds to help the blind or vision impaired navigate around obstacles. In this post, we’re going to look at two separate “breakthrough” developments that are both poised to revolutionize the world of ophthalmology. In one of his most iconic performances till date, American comedian and actor Chris Rock famously called out the medical industry by pointing…

The Kryptonian crystal with the human genome on it is all set to be stored in The Memory Of Mankind vault which is deep within the abandoned Hallstatt salt mine in Germany. DC comic fans would probably already be aware of the Kryptonian memory crystals that debuted in the 1966 Action Comics and have been a major part of the Superman storyline ever since. Used to store information, videos, memories, and entire minds, Lex Luther even used one to grow a continent in the recent Superman Returns movie. Known for their special powers, durability, and indestructible nature, the contents of…

In a groundbreaking development, a team of South Korean researchers have developed a transparent solar cell that not only is cheap to produce, but also has a Power Conversion Efficiency on par with commercial solar cells. In our previous post we talked about how South Korean firm Hogreen air has developed a groundbreaking drone that flies on Hydrogen fuel. In this post, the South Koreans are at it again, and this time with solar cells that could be a game changer across industries. To put it simply, in the very near future, we’re probably not going to need to run…

The average commercial drone can stay in the air for about half an hour on a single battery charge, this new drone from South Korean firm Hogreen Air, can fly for 14 hours straight! In a recent YouTube video on a channel called The Military Show, they talk about how cheap Ukrainian paper planes are destroying expensive Russian military equipment. Incidentally, that’s a topic we covered in a previous post titled Robots on the Battlefields of Ukraine and in the Tunnels of Gaza! The paper planes in question here are cardboard drones made by an Australian firm that have been…

If you’ve watched “The Last of Us” on Netflix, this might sound like a nightmare, but apocalypse aside, the implications of being able to successfully merge a mushroom and a robot are fascinating, to say the least. Out of all the crazy videos you’ve ever seen on YouTube, if a king oyster mushroom built into and controlling what looks like a robotic octopus doesn’t amaze you, you’re probably an alien. Mushrooms and fungi in general have been getting a lot of attention since the infamous JRE podcasts with Paul Stamets, as well as the hit series The Last of Us.…

While making the sun shine at night may just be the craziest idea we have come across yet, Reflect Orbital, headed by CEO Ben Novack, is dead serious about this venture. When you read the title of a post like this, the first instinct is to think it has to be some kind of joke, come on, selling sunlight at night may just be the craziest idea we have come across yet. That being said, however, Reflect Orbital, headed by CEO Ben Novack, is dead serious about selling California Sunshine, after dark, and is even developing an app through which…

A team of Swiss Scientists have ditched conventional materials altogether and have decided to literally put the “neuro” in “neuromorphic,” with actual human brain cells. Earlier last month, we wrote about how mainstream AI workloads are too resource hungry and how it costs millions of dollars a day to run large language models like ChatGPT (which is quite unsustainable). This has led to a number of endeavors to create more efficient computing platforms like neuromorphic computers which, unlike conventional computers, are actual hardware versions of neural networks and are much more energy efficient. They are, however, still made of the…