@ashashinashion i think its u who lacks empathy and that will never change which is pretty depressing i wish you could learn to love others as much as you love yourself and your own kind.
A robot cheetah now runs 45 km/h, faster than Usain Bolt's top speed.
It's not the strangest one.
A robot spider skeleton comes off a 3D printer. 26 servo motors. $1,385 with skin, $250 without.
A robot manta ray took 2 years and 40 fin designs before Singapore researchers landed on flexible PVC pectoral fins. It swims at twice its body length per second. 10 hours underwater before it needs to surface.
A robot dragonfly from Germany weighs 175 grams. 27-inch wingspan. Flies forward, backward, sideways, hovers, just like the real thing.
Boston Dynamics built a dog that carries 500 kg and hits 25 km/h. It can open doors on its own.
A 6-legged crab robot drops 200 meters underwater on 30 joints and grips objects with its front claws.
A robotic kangaroo weighs 7 kg and jumps 80 cm, recycling the energy from each landing into the next leap.
An AI puppy remembers what earns praise and repeats it. Eyes are screens. $2,899.
None of these were built to look pretty.
They were built because evolution already solved the problem first.
i feel so uncomfortable recording thirst traps in public bc i'm basically subjecting everyone else to my bs. how people do that and then take advantage of strangers being justifiably annoyed with it, is pretty shit
Grok 4.6 is pretty pretty good. Spent a few hours with it last night. A few impressions:
- quite fast for the intelligence
- prose descriptions of complex code is concise and clear
- able to tackle hard problems (e.g. successfully built a RAM probe to pull position information from the PRG emulator I'm using)
- Seems particularly good at longer running tasks
- May be even more autistic than 5.6? It does exactly what I ask. Not more. And often will take things very (too?) literally
- Gonna try it as my primary driver and see how it goes, but so far, quite favorable