..."According to #Oregon Public Broadcasting, three #robotic#felines are in circulation at branches of the Eugene Public #Library and are freely available for lending to anyone with a library card. And yes, each has a name: Mr. Pickles, Percival, and Bandit."...
#SpacePolitics
“It got funded as a #rocket to #nowhere, and we at #NASA had to figure out something to do with it,” #Garver says. Legacy contractors like #Boeing continued to receive large bonus payments 💰 for working on the #SLS, despite delays and mushrooming #costs.
Critics of the #SLS argue that the rocket is #unsustainable by #design, relying on an old and potentially quite #expensive way to get to #space. Much of SLS is a holdover from the #spaceshuttle. But while the shuttle #orbiter, #engines, and external #tanks were designed to be #reusable, SLS and its engines were not.
“They’ve designed a rocket that is basically #unsustainable, because it’s completely #throwaway. The only bit that comes back is #Orion”
Ms. Stirone is a space writer. Dr. Chiao is a former NASA #astronaut. Ms. Garver is a former deputy administrator of NASA. Dr. Grinspoon is an #astrobiologist
RT @ResearchSEA: Want to make your dance showcase a little more interesting 💃? Strap on a harness and try “Jizai Arms”, interchangeable #robotic arms created by @UTokyo_News_en 🦾
"It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet." I am riveted by the extensive documentation of how ChatGPT-powered Bing is now completely unhinged. @simon has chronicled it beautifully here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/
"Recent research has taken this approach, training language models [#LLM's] to generate physics simulations, interact with physical environments and even generate #robotic action plans.
Embodied language understanding might still be a long way off, but these kinds of multisensory interactive projects are crucial steps on the way there."