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Berkeley and CMU jointly develop two-footed robots with two legs walking

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Remember the dynamic robots that Boston powered, avoiding obstacles, climbing stairs, or even delivering express delivery, and arbitrarily moving through various terrains. Now, the UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University labs have developed a more flexible leg-shaped robot, ATRIAS, that can walk on rough terrain like humans, across obstacles, and without Affected by the height of the obstacle and the distance between them. That is to say, even if the ground environment is randomly changed, the foot robot can smoothly walk. This is very powerful! For foot-shaped robots, especially those that are currently "blind", how to "below" on the ground is strictly controlled by algorithms. These algorithms are not very friendly to the uneven ground environment. So the biggest challenge in designing this robot is how to optimize the control algorithm for discrete footholds. Such a flexible robot is controlled by complex dynamic equations. Specifi

Alibaba invests in Turkish electricity company Trendix

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According to media reports, Turkish e-commerce company Trendyol issued a statement on Thursday local time, saying that the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba decided to invest in the company, and the specific investment amount was not disclosed. Trendyol is Turkey's most well-known online fashion retailer, having previously attracted a lot of foreign investors to inject capital, and the company has taken a leading position in Turkey's extremely fragmented e-commerce market. Trendyol stated in a statement: "With this agreement, Alibaba and Trendyol will work together to promote the company's development in Turkey and the surrounding areas." However, neither company has currently disclosed the exact size and timing of the investment and is unwilling to comment further on this. In fact, this is not the first time that Alibaba has cooperated with Turkish companies. As early as 2015, Alibaba announced its cooperation with local e-commerce company E-Glober, p

Mobile phone shell can automatically open shock absorbers when the phone drops

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When we did not hold the phone and accidentally slipped off our hands, it seemed that the entire world had stopped. At this moment, the only thing we can hear is as if the heartbeats of our own hearts have become silent all around. All the cognitions have lost their function and the brain is even blank. When the mobile phone rotates in the air, there is only one idea in our mind. The screen must be broken and hundreds of thousands of screens must be changed for the mobile phone. I regret why I did not hold it. If it is lucky, the mobile phone's side frame will fall. Or the protective cover is thick enough. At most, there is a trace of bumping and there is no problem with the screen. But if the screen is on the ground first, then wait for our screen change. However, the recent appearance of a mobile phone case with an active protection function can prevent this from happening. It looks a bit like a smartphone airbag, a shortcut to Philip Frenzel, an engineer at Aalen Universi

Should we teach our children to treat smart speakers with politeness?

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For users, smart speakers are no stranger and far away. As of February 2018, 20% of U.S. homes equipped with wifi have at least one smart speaker, a figure that has doubled from six months ago. According to a report published by Strategy Analytics, shipments of smart speakers worldwide reached 9.2 million units in the first quarter of 2018, which is nearly four times that of 2.4 million units in the same period in 2017. In the United States, smart speaker coverage is steadily rising (Source: Statista) As smart speakers walk into more and more people's homes, worries are born, and parents with children at home are more worried than others. In addition to worrying about privacy being compromised by smart speakers, parents are also worried about the unknown effects that smart devices will have on children, especially when they hear children make simple, rough orders to smart speakers. Regardless of how vocal the children's voices were, the gentle adult in the speaker wou

Silicon Labs Releases New Wireless Software That Supports Bluetooth and Sub-GHz IoT Device Communication

Silicon Labs has released a new version of its Wireless Gecko product family that enables simultaneous Sub-GHz and 2.4 GHz Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE) connectivity on a single chip. This Silicon Labs solution supports commercial and industrial IoT applications, combining long-range Sub-GHz communications with Bluetooth connectivity, simplifying device setup, data acquisition, and maintenance. By eliminating the complexity of a two-chip wireless architecture, developers can accelerate time-to-market and reduce bill of materials (BOM) cost and footprint by up to 40%. With Silicon Labs' new Wireless Gecko hardware and software solution, users can use mobile applications to set up, control and monitor Sub-GHz IoT devices directly via Bluetooth. By adding a Bluetooth LE connection to a wireless network in the Sub-GHz band, developers can offer more new features such as faster Over-the-Air (OTA) and the use of Bluetooth beacons to deploy a scalable location-based service infrastructure

YIKESHU Scale Cat Children's Musical Toys Set Lemon Friends' Choir Musical Instruments Playing Shakes

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This is made up of 8 cute cats. They have a nice name called a scale cat. When you touch them, They will sound like Meow meow meow. I really like them very much. Not only that, it has other great effects. Wonderful echoes: Multiple kittens pressed in a superposition, producing a wonderful harmony. A set of cute toys is designed for healing people from stress. Perfect gift for kids, friends, family, or yourself. Both children and adults can play these kittens with a lot of fun Made of Food Grade Silicone. It is safe and environmental-friendly. No toxic and Non-irritating odor Ideal for improving hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. Watch the video:https://youtu.be/0KCPh6otcfQ Link:https://amzn.to/2HCi8tP

In 2023, sales of smart home equipment will exceed 1.9 billion units

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According to the latest research, by 2023, the global demand for smart home devices will soon exceed the sales of smart phones. Strategy Analytics research shows that in 2017, the global smart home equipment sales volume was 663 million, and this number is expected to increase to 1.94 billion by 2023. The report said: "In 2018, total expenses related to hardware, services, and installation of smart homes will reach nearly 96 billion U.S. dollars. It is estimated that by 2023 it will reach 155 billion U.S. dollars and the compound annual growth rate will reach 10%." Meanwhile, "2018 The annual equipment expenditure will reach 53 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 55% of the total; in 2023, it will reach 78 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 51% of the total expenditure, and the compound annual growth rate will be 8%." The 2018 Global Smart Home Devices Forecast (2018 Global Smart Home Devices Forecast) This research report focuses on smart home devices th

Song Jiqiang, President of Intel China Research Institute: 5G plays a key role in landing AI

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Some experts in the communications industry pointed out that just as 3G opened the mobile Internet in 2007, commercial use of 5G will start the era of mobile AI in 2020. "When AI is deployed in a large scale in the application scenario, 5G has a crucial role in the landing of AI," said Song Jiqiang, director of the Intel China Research Institute, in an exclusive interview with the China Electronics News reporter. "We think AI's Applications are usually end-to-end scenarios. Data collection is at the front end. Data processing and value added are in the cloud. Value-added results must be returned to the front-end to improve the processing capabilities and processing performance of front-end devices. In closed-loop applications, there will be a lot of demand for 5G large-bandwidth, low-latency, and high-reliability networks. He believes that 5G also provides the possibility of using edges throughout the AI ​​architecture, allowing a lot of data to be quickly proces

ARM new architecture A76 exposure

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We know that whether Apple A series chips, Qualcomm Snapdragon chips, Samsung Exynos chips or MediaTek, or even Kirin chips, are essentially based on the core technology provided by ARM or authorized. In other words, ARM is at the top of the mobile phone processor industry. Earlier today, the network was exposed on the Cortex-A76, the latest ARM processor architecture. The current high-performance CPU architecture of ARM is the Cortex-A75, so the Cortex-A76 is actually the next generation of high-performance architecture. The new Cortex-A76 official presupposes that the highest frequency is 3.0Ghz, and with the new process of the future, it can achieve 35% performance improvement and 40% energy efficiency improvement (compared with the previous generation architecture A75). In addition, in the GeekBench 4 run of Android players, the integer IPC of the Cortex-A76 architecture is increased by 25%, the floating point is increased by 35%, the memory bandwidth is increased by 90%, a