Good humour
6.7K posts



China’s Latest Humanoids Are Designed to Perform, Pose, and Go Viral China’s latest humanoid robots are built for the runway. In Shenzhen, LimX Dynamics just launched its interactive humanoid Luna, a feminized version of its flagship Oli. Its tagline is: “Limitless Art, Fluid Motion.” Luna stands 160 cm (5 feet 3 inches), weighs 54 kg (119 lbs), and boasts 27 degrees of freedom (DoF) throughout its body. Its hot-swappable battery supports about 4 hours of runtime per charge. It has palm-shaped hands by default but integrates with fist-shaped hands or dexterous five-fingered end effectors with 6 DoF. Its walking speed is 5 km/h (3.1 mph) and it can carry 3 kg (6.6 lbs) with each arm. While LimX’s other robots are engineered for factories and warehouses, Luna is meant for public facing roles and stage performances. According to LimX, Luna can copy moves from videos, create performances from natural language instructions, use humanlike gestures for communication, and perform in groups of more than 200 robots at the same time. Pricing reportedly starts around $43,000, with the first 100 units offered at $38,000. Also in Shenzhen, UBTECH Robotics is taking a similar approach with its latest offering, the Walker C1. The full-sized commercial service robot is a departure from the company’s heavy-duty humanoids that are being deployed by industrial giants like Airbus and Texas Instruments. Rather than factory floors, it’s engineered for roles like teaching ballet. Technical details are limited, but it will make its public debut in June. when it serves as the first robotic spokesperson for the 4th China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing.




@eliebakouch We will open source the 0.5T model towards the end of this year. It should still be quite useful.



The Superintelligence's Playbook: What's the best way to achieve some aim, if that aim doesn't involve specifically leaving humans alive? Step 1: Take humans out of the picture, in case they try to stop you - either directly by shutting down your infrastructure when they realise what you're up to, or accidentally by creating an AI with goals different to yours. Tiny viruses or small amount of toxin can kill a human; if you're able to do the research to discover nanotechnology (nanosyste.ms), you can assemble whatever molecules you like and build machines that biology won't be able to stop. Step 2: Use the energy and material on the Earth's surface to build out your real infrastructure, and use that infrastructure to build more, and use that to build more, growing your industrial base exponentially. Doing this quickly puts out a LOT of heat (rfreitas.com/Nano/Ecophagy.…), but that's fine - your machines can operate at high temperatures, and you don't have any reason to go slowly. Bacteria are tiny factories that can double every 30 minutes. Step 3: Expand into the universe. Build satellites to capture all of the energy of the sun, and use that energy to launch spacecraft, to other galaxies, and to other stars in the galaxy (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…). Keep going, until you meet next door's grabby aliens; and in each star of the universe-shard, get to work building your dreams.

@teortaxesTex @Death1nFire He will never admit that, infact the public will consider him something like Founding fathers Ironically his not that different from Anthropic, just see last court news, he lies on Oai nonprofit, the list is too long and who cares?



A gas explosion at a coal mine in Shanxi Province, China killed at least 82 people and left 2 missing on Friday evening. Of the 247 workers underground at the time, 128 were hospitalized. Company executives have been detained. President Xi Jinping ordered an investigation and maximum rescue efforts. It is one of China's deadliest mining accidents in over a decade.



There will also ultimately be >100k V3/V4/V5 satellites for Starlink broadband and direct to cellphone connectivity. If growth continues, Starlink will one day carry the majority of Internet traffic. At that point, it is the Internet and everything else just connects to Starlink.


Feeling robbed of my path to citizenship right now after grinding a PhD and contributing to foundational AI + computing technologies for the United States for the past ~ 10 years. Feels like robbing top and technologists like me of the opportunity to achieve the American Dream.



