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Sanctuary AI, a Vancouver-based robotics firm, has just revealed Phoenix, their humanoid robot designed for the workforce.
Stats:
-5'7"
-155 lbs
-Human dexterity
-Lifts up to 55 pounds
-Can move at three miles per hour
Canada's Sanctuary AI has revealed a new humanoid robot, shooting for the "world's first human-like intelligence in general purpose robots (GPR)." Phoenix builds on some very impressive earlier work and a neat "piloted" approach to training.
The humanoid form certainly isn't the most efficient shape for a useful robot – but it's an excellent shape for a robot that's designed to take over as many human tasks as possible.
Regarding bipedal robots, the benchmark is relatively high, with Boston Dynamics' Atlas capable of doing flips and somersaults. Musk, however, never said that Tesla was looking to entertain people with its robots' antics. Instead, Tesla's Bot will do the same repetitive, boring thing that most robot companies do, replacing humans with "repetitive, dangerous or boring tasks."
Wendy’s plans to test delivering mobile orders with an underground autonomous robot system.
The quick service restaurant (QSR) has partnered with “hyperlogistics company” Pipedream on a pilot program that will equip one existing restaurant with an underground delivery system that will carry digital food orders from the kitchen to designated parking spots, according to a Wednesday (May 17) press release.
With the Pipedream system, autonomous robots will transport meals underground from the kitchen to a car located at a designated Instant Pickup portal in a matter of seconds, according to the press release.
The system will allow digital customers to pick up their orders quickly and conveniently, without having to leave their car, and will free up restaurant crew members to do other things, the release said.
Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire sex criminal, introduced Kimbal Musk, Elon Musk's brother, to a woman in his entourage, two sources told Business Insider.
The woman, who had previously dated Epstein and lived in an apartment building where he was known to house models, dated Kimbal Musk from 2011 to 2012.
Though the relationship was by all accounts genuine, the sources said Epstein hoped it would open doors to Elon Musk and his companies.
Epstein and his entourage were granted a private tour of Elon Musk's SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California, in 2012.
It's unclear how Epstein and Kimbal Musk met initially, but they saw each other occasionally because Kimbal was dating a woman in Epstein's entourage at the time, the people said. The woman had previously dated Epstein and lived in an apartment building that Epstein's brother owned, which Epstein had used to house people close to him, including models from Eastern Europe.
The couple, who dated from 2011 to 2012, were set up by Epstein, the sources said. Their relationship brought Epstein into contact with the Musk family and its businesses, and it highlights how the convicted sex offender may have used the women in his inner circle to develop strategic relationships with prominent people in the world of tech and business.
originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: RelSciHistItSufi
I think it's because the Flynn we should be trusting is/was Charles Flynn and not Michael. That's just me though, and I have been known to be wrong from time to time.
originally posted by: FlyingFox
originally posted by: crankyoldman
Hilarious.
Disney has reportedly cut ties with Dwayne Johnson in a major film franchise after a massive $3 billion lawsuit was filed that names Johnson as the mastermind behind an elaborate kidnapping plot against another former pro-wrestler and her children.
TNA (Total Nonstop Action Wrestling) wrestler Trenesha Biggers, also known by her ring name, Rhaka Khan. Khan claims that she and her children were the targets of an elaborate criminal plot orchestrated by Johnson and a plethora of other defendants–some individuals, some groups, some government agencies, and some businesses–and that together, the defendants worked to kidnap Biggers, as well as her children.
The complaint is 45 pages in length, but the list of defendants takes up far more paper than the actual complaint, as Biggers lists more defendants than we’ve ever seen listed in any complaint. In addition to naming Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as an alleged perpetrator, the former wrestler listed multiple other WWE personalities who she says played a part in the alleged conspiracy to kidnap her and her family, including “The Miz,” Nikki Bella, Maryse, Heath Miller, and Mark Jindrak.
In the lawsuit, Biggers further named the State of Texas, The El Paso Child Protective Services, the FBI, The Las Cruces, New Mexico Police Department, The NYPD, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, New York ACS, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., the Shirley Police Department, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and Suffolk County, New York, as defendants in the case, alleging that they, too, were accomplices in the alleged criminal plot against her.
The complaint is an interesting one and alleges that each of the people and entities named as defendants in the suit played a role in conspiring against Biggers in a case against her in Texas related to child custody. Per PWInsider, Biggers’s lawsuit “makes reference to being taken to Riker’s Island (a jail in NYC) after U.S. Marshals arrived at her home in New York City to arrest her in October 2021, but that they failed to provide a ‘scintilla’ of evidence in a hearing about her extradition. She claims that the judge overseeing the hearing ordered her released, but the arrest and hearing allowed for the ‘kidnapping’ of her children and that the law enforcement agencies involved ‘failed to intervene.’
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We will just add water and some yeast and make some beer out of it then.
originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
a reply to: dashen
The Corn's guna lose all it's juice and dry out if not harvested soon!!!
Popcorn (also called popped corn, popcorns or pop-corn) is a variety of corn kernel which expands and puffs up when heated; the same names also refer to the foodstuff produced by the expansion.
A popcorn kernel's strong hull contains the seed's hard, starchy shell endosperm with 14–20% moisture, which turns to steam as the kernel is heated. Pressure from the steam continues to build until the hull ruptures, allowing the kernel to forcefully expand, to 20 to 50 times its original size, and then cool.
Some strains of corn (taxonomized as Zea mays) are cultivated specifically as popping corns. The Zea mays variety everta, a special kind of flint corn, is the most common of these.
Popcorn is one of six major types of corn, which includes dent corn, flint corn, pod corn, flour corn, and sweet corn.