Did you know that Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot doubles as a firefighter back in 2017? If not, here’s a short clip shot back in 2017 of the robot putting out a “fire” on the loading dock at IHMC Robotics in in Pensacola, Florida.
We have seen the future of text-to-video AI generators, and it includes OpenAI‘s Sora. It’s capable of generating complex scenes with multiple characters, specific types of motion, and accurate details of the subject as well as background. The model achieves this by not only analyzing the prompt, but also understanding how those things exist in the physical world.
You’ve seen transparent OLEDs, but did you know that the blue LED was notoriously hard to make due to p-type gallium nitride? That’s right, they had to figure out how to make a blue LED was that would continue to operate for hundreds of hours, without destroying itself.
Unlike this gingerbread instant film camera, imitation crab meat requires quite a bit of technology to make into the sticks you see at supermarkets worldwide. These machines basically blend processed fish, called surimi, with various texturizing ingredients, flavorants, and colorants.