Biomimetics: can robots outperform animals?
• Will future generations eventually outperform animals in every way possible? Massive investment in robotics research has yet to provide a definitive answer to this question.
• Robots outperform animals on the level of sub-systems in categories like power, frame, actuation, sensing and control, but animals benefit from better integration of all these sub-systems and have superior overall abilities.
• At the same time, animals still dominate performance in some sub-systems: notably in the realm of intelligence (surpassing AI) and their capacity to store and convert energy.
Read the article
• Robots outperform animals on the level of sub-systems in categories like power, frame, actuation, sensing and control, but animals benefit from better integration of all these sub-systems and have superior overall abilities.
• At the same time, animals still dominate performance in some sub-systems: notably in the realm of intelligence (surpassing AI) and their capacity to store and convert energy.
Autonomous vehicles may soon benefit from 100 times faster neuromorphic cameras
Read the article
Construction, maintenance: drones that physically interact with their environment
Read the article
Recommendation L.1480 Quantifies All Usage-Related CO2 Impacts, Including the Rebound Effect
Read the article
IoT: new energy-efficient chips could expand the scope of artificial intelligence in edge computing
Read the article