Kalen DeBoer will be the most successful first-year head coach of all time for the Alabama Crimson Tide college football program. Better than the GOAT Nick Saban. Better than the iconic Bear Bryant. Better than Gene Stallings. Of course as Greg McElroy and any diehard Bama fan knows, this is all a bit tongue-in-cheek as […]
This humanoid robot can drive cars — sort of
Is the key to autonomous cars that don’t run over pedestrians and crash into telephone poles a humanoid robot behind the wheel? A group of researchers at the University of Tokyo think so, and they lay out their argument in a newly published technical paper this week. The researchers, one of whom consults for Toyota, […]
Elon’s Tesla robot is sort of ‘ok’ at folding laundry in pre-scripted demo
Elon Musk’s Optimus humanoid robot from Tesla is doing more stuff — this time folding a t-shirt on a table in a development facility. The robot looks to be fairly competent when it comes to this task, but moments after Musk shared the video, he also shared some follow-up information which definitely dampens some of […]