Robotics Business Review

JULY 9, 2024

Elon Musk and Tesla have done much to amplify the concept of humanoids and to sell the idea of a future where such robots can do real work on the manufacturing floor, in warehouses, and ultimately (according to Musk) in our homes. Nobody wants to see a humanoid robot injure or kill their grandmother, child, or pet.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2024

All of these things lower the cost of investment for companies to deploy AI, making the technology more financially viable. General AgTech news in addition CNHI: farm-ng raised $10 million in Series A funding to scale the Amiga robot and AI for small to midsize farms. This could lead to more rapid changes in the job market.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2024

While many robotics experts take a long view on the topic, 1X Technologies AS today unveiled the NEO Beta prototype of its humanoid as it prepares for pilot deployments in select homes later this year. 1X designs NEO Beta for consumer use According to 1X Technologies, NEO was designed from the ground up to be a consumer robot.

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E&T

MARCH 30, 2023

Over 1,300 people, including several notable technology experts, have asked AI labs to pause all large-scale AI experiments for at least six months, in an open letter issued by the Future of Life Institute. Shortly after, Google launched a rival chatbot , named Bard.

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E&T

MARCH 27, 2023

Elon Musk's platform Twitter has asked a US court to provide information on who was behind the account which leaked parts of the company's source code – the underlying software on which the service operates. Elon Musk's company claimed the account had infringed copyrights owned by the company.

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E&T

APRIL 18, 2023

Elon Musk has confirmed that he wants to launch a third AI powerhouse to rival and, in his view, counterbalance Google and the OpenAI/Microsoft partnership. Musk therefore concluded at the time, “The person who’s in charge doesn’t seem to care about safety.” Musk’s Truth GPT move was mooted in the press over the weekend.

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E&T

JULY 10, 2023

We have the technology. The BCIs on the launch pad are Synchron, partly backed by the investment funds of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, with trials already under way; Neuralink, backed by Elon Musk; and Paradromics, with backers including the US National Institutes of Health and Department of Defence (DoD), and family of the late Ray Dolby.

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E&T

APRIL 11, 2023

If inappropriate content is generated by their platforms, the agency will require companies to update the technology within three months to prevent similar content from being generated again. The rise in popularity of these technologies has raised privacy concerns.

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E&T

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

It will be a truly pan-European project allowing our many start-ups and Europe as a whole to be at the forefront of technological innovation.”. Elon Musk's Starlink satellite network has provided crucial battlefield communications for Ukrainian military forces since the beginning of the war with Russia.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2024

Of course, Elon Musk promoted this dogma by declaring all of Tesla’s cars would be “full self-driving” in 2016, enabling drivers to nap on the way to work. Note that Tesla recently recalled 2 million vehicles because of its Autopilot technology). Elon Musk talks about autotech on X.

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E&T

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Elon Musk-founded firm operates a constellation of over 3,000 satellites in low-Earth orbit that can provide a broadband data service to devices across the globe, including in areas that aren’t served by traditional radio towers.

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Canadian Manufacturing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

CEO Elon Musk said the “Cybercab” doesn’t have steering wheels or pedals. The company also expects to make its Full Self-Driving technology available on its Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in Texas and California next year. Tesla expects the Cybercabs to cost under $30,000.

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E&T

JANUARY 26, 2023

With ChatGPT being one of the most innovative AI technologies seen in the industry, [Microsoft] is clearly being aggressive on this front and not going to be left behind on what could be a potential game-changing AI investment," analysts with Wedbush Securities told investors in a report.

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E&T

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Once it was confirmed that Elon Musk is to honour his $44bn (£39bn) offer for Twitter, there came the inevitable tweet. Musk will – OK, likely will – inherit a company where he has demoralised many of the staff and is regarded warily by many of its real users, particularly those who believe he will welcome back The Donald.

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E&T

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

With this move, Amazon would become the latest technology giant to reduce its workforce. In the days following Elon Musk's $44bn acquisition of Twitter , the social media company laid off approximately half its workforce. Lyft, Stripe, Snap and other technology firms have also laid off workers in recent months.

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E&T

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If you want to know how big the problem is, says O’Hurley, look no further than the recent Twitter spat in which prospective buyer Elon Musk claimed that “90 per cent of my comments are bots”. O’Hurley describes the app as a terminal technology “because the failure acceptance rate of this is 1-in-933,000,000,000.

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Canadian Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

An artificial intelligence researcher at Google says fixing fairness in the technology “isn’t a simple thing,” but the world has an opportunity to get it right as the software explodes in popularity. is using the technology to reduce search abandonment, while Canadian National Railway Co. E-commerce giant Shopify Inc.

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E&T

AUGUST 11, 2022

Despite all the advances that technology has brought about, there is a digital divide around the globe: those with connectivity and those without. Moreover, nationalistic ambitions could also make space a battleground, at least a technology one, with Chinese, American and European protagonists.

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E&T

APRIL 14, 2023

Last month, notable technology figures including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak signed an open letter warning that AI labs were locked in an “out-of-control race” and calling for a six-month pause on all large-scale AI experiments. Concerns about the chatbot's dangers have also been voiced by industry experts.

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Canadian Manufacturing

APRIL 30, 2024

The investment includes smart technology, an updated showroom, and additional office space. We have to increase production somehow so the smart thing to do was to innovate and add technology,” said Sprung. “We Sprung delivered on Musk’s promises to shareholders by building a Model 3 assembly plant in just three weeks.

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E&T

APRIL 17, 2023

Elon Musk wanted to make sure his newly won control of Twitter would ‘sink in’ as he staggered through the doors of the company’s San Francisco office with a heavy ceramic kitchen basin. Technology executives like to talk of disruption. If successful, it might take other companies of the same Web 2.0 generation with it.

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E&T

MAY 4, 2023

It’s a technology developing at speed and has the potential to transform the way businesses compete as well as drive substantial economic growth. Our goal is to help this new, rapidly scaling technology develop in ways that ensure open, competitive markets and effective consumer protection."

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E&T

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We tend to think of the future through the lens of Moore’s Law, says Liddell, assuming that technology will only lead us toward faster or higher transport. It’s less than a decade since Elon Musk published the Hyperloop Alpha paper proposing his ‘fifth mode of transportation’. We take a look at five of them here.

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Canadian Manufacturing

AUGUST 28, 2024

Three times in the past four months, William Stein, a technology analyst at Truist Securities, has taken Elon Musk up on his invitation to try the latest versions of Tesla’s vaunted “Full Self-Driving” system. A Tesla equipped with the technology, the company says, can travel from point to point with little human intervention.

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E&T

APRIL 3, 2023

Nonetheless, it is unlikely to affect software applications from companies that already have licenses with OpenAI to use the technology, such as Microsoft’s search engine Bing. At the same time, the European Commission is debating the EU AI Act, which aims to provide a framework that would guide the responsible use of these technologies. "No

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E&T

AUGUST 11, 2022

But it’s controversial if only because it involves Elon Musk and we know from experience that anything we publish about Musk tends to divide opinion and fill our inboxes. . Perhaps that’s why more people are deliberately making the break with digital technology – in some ways. What makes the British who they are?

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Ahead of Elon Musk acquiring the company in October for $44bn, there were few signs of impending cuts. Following the takeover, Musk let go of 3,500 people. Amazon said that its cuts centred on “corporate and technology roles”. Image credit: Gettyimages. Then there’s Twitter.

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Canadian Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

” The Tesla plant, which makes solar panels and other renewable energy technology, is not far from a Starbucks location where workers voted to unionize last year. . “They want us to be scared, but I think they just started a stampede. We can do this. But I believe we will do this.”

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E&T

MARCH 2, 2023

REUTERS/Steve Nesius Image credit: REUTERS/Joe Skipper The flight is the seventh under contract between Nasa and SpaceX, Elon Musk's space venture famous for its reusable rockets. Nasa's SpaceX Crew-6 mission launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S./

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

There is no set standard for how these vehicles are going to emerge, or the technology that will be used to drive them,” says Fisher, “so they’re all going to be using different types of technology and different types of sensors to build the picture for the vehicle. Some will require onboard cameras, some will not. “If

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E&T

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Personal transport has reached a pivotal point in its evolution as self-driving cars shift drivers’ focus away from the road and towards the interior cabin, where an array of technological distractions are being developed to help them work, play, shop or socialise. The interior of the future will be bigger and much more homely than today.

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The Guardian Manufacturing

JULY 23, 2024

Billionaire says Optimus will start performing tasks for carmaker in 2025 and could be ready for sale in 2026 Business live – latest updates The Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk, has claimed the company will produce “genuinely useful” humanoid robots to start working in its factories next year.

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ATS

MARCH 31, 2023

Tesla Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada The person who brought the term into widespread use may know best what it means — Elon Musk first mentioned the gigafactory on a Tesla investor’s call in 2013, referring to the need to massively increase battery production capacity as widespread demand for electric vehicles grew.

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E&T

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

What has changed to make that possible is not any great advance in the technology for the in-space generation and transmission of electric power, nor in the on-Earth systems for its capture and supply to the grid. He pinpoints in particular those produced by the SpaceX company founded by US entrepreneur Elon Musk. Technology.

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Dinesh Mishra

MAY 23, 2024

The challenge lies not only in increasing the number of charging stations but also in ensuring their strategic distribution and technological compatibility. Policies promoting public-private partnerships, subsidization of installation costs, and standardization of charging technology are vital.

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The Guardian Manufacturing

JANUARY 2, 2024

Build Your Dreams outsells rival in final quarter of 2023 figures for battery-only vehicles Elon Musk’s Tesla has been overtaken by its Chinese rival, BYD, as the world’s top selling electric carmaker. Continue reading.

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The Guardian Manufacturing

APRIL 26, 2024

EV sales have plateaued across the world but the newfound glut of vehicles may just be temporary Elon Musk became the world’s richest man by evangelising about electric cars – and delivering them by the million. Those struggles have become emblematic of a broader reckoning facing the electric vehicle (EV) industry.

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