by Warp Institute | Aug 13, 2021 | Human Progress, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
Facebook has released Droidlet, which is an open platform based on open-source code. With the help of the Droidlet, you can build an embodied robot that can recognize natural language, navigate its surroundings and react to some input. Robots built in the Droidlet...
by Warp Institute | Aug 13, 2021 | Green Tech, Artificial Intelligence
Australia's severe bushfires have threatened the koala population. Queensland University of Technology, QUT, has been working for many years with monitoring the population using sensors and drones, but now the project will be ramped up significantly. A donation...
by Warp Institute | Jul 29, 2021 | Human Progress, Space, Artificial Intelligence
Not all galaxies create stars actively; this has been made clear thanks to observation programs such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In some galaxies, it takes much longer than "usual" for stars to form. Why this is the case has long been debated. A...
by Warp Institute | Jul 29, 2021 | Health Tech, Elon Musk, Human Progress, Artificial Intelligence
Synchron, a rival to Elon Musk's Neuralink, has made their own version of an "implantable brain-computer interface," and it just got the green light by the Food and Drug Administration in the US to be implanted in humans. Neuralink has not yet reached...
by Warp Institute | Jul 28, 2021 | Health Tech, Human Progress, Artificial Intelligence
A few months ago, we published an Optimist's Edge article on how science is trying to find a cure for aging. Proteins play a major role in aging, and the fact is that they play a major role in almost all biological processes. Proteins have a variety of functions...
by Warp Institute | Jul 19, 2021 | Human Progress, Artificial Intelligence
Game theory is an interdisciplinary research field that studies games and strategies in games. A concept in Game Theory is what's called "Nash Equilibrium In a game, you want to reach this equilibrium at each move. ."This means that no improvement can...