Researchers combined optical sensors with a composite material to create a soft robot that can detect when and where it was damaged – and then heal itself on the spot.

 

“Our lab is always trying to make robots

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NASA’s TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) payload will showcase the high-data-rate capabilities of laser communications from a CubeSat in low-Earth orbit. At 200 gigabits per second (Gbps), TBIRD will downlink data at the highest optical rate ever achieved by NASA.

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Earlier this month, Google engineer Blake Lemoine claimed that his employer’s AI chatbot LaMDA became sentient. During an “interview,” LaMDA agreed to some — very pointed — questions about its capacity to feel things, and Lemoine later stated “I know a

Humans do a poor job of recycling, with less than 10% of our global resources recycled, and tossing 1 of every 5 items (~17%) in a recycling bin that shouldn’t be there. That’s bad news for everyone — <a href="https://resource-recycling.com/recycling/2021/08/31/mrfs-face-brunt-of-the-negative-impact-from-battery-fires/#:~:text=Of%20the%20MRFs%20that%20experienced%20battery%20fires%20in%20recent%20years%2C%2078%25%20had%20to%20call%20emergency%20responders%20at%20least%20once%20(compared%20with%2040%25%20of%20landfills)%2C%20five%20of%20them%20had%20worker%20injuries%20(compared%20with%20just%20two%20other%20facilities%20across%20all%20other%20categories)%2C%20and%20half%20of%20them%20experienced%20monetary%20loss."

Dr. Martens and The Met have collaborated on a mini-collection honoring Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.

Dr. Martens is known for its iconic footwear and, in the past, the company has married its designs with classic art by collaborating with

Today, data systems and algorithms can be deployed at unprecedented scale and speed—and unintended consequences will affect people with that same scale and speed. How can we always make sure we’re putting people first when designing large scale systems? Especially

Fans of comics can spend hours browsing Comiclopedia: an online archive of the art of 14,000 comic artists, including Stan Lee and Moebius.

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The new Stable Diffusion 2.0 release features many improvements, including new base models, a 4x upscaling model, and a depth-guided stable diffusion model. These new models offer many creative possibilities for image transformation and synthesis.

New features in v2 include:

• •Base 512×512