The UK is establishing the Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR) to help protect Britain and its allies against emerging threats in what officials describe as an “AI arms race.” The laboratory – which will receive an initial government funding of £8.22 million – aims to bring together experts from industry, academia, and government to […]
On November 21, Alibaba Group Holding Limited CEO Eddie Wu sent an email to all employees, announcing the establishment of the Alibaba E-commerce Business Group and appointing Jiang Fan as in charge, reporting to Eddie Wu. The new e-commerce business group will comprehensively integrate Taobao Tmall Group, International Digital Business Group, as well as 1688, […]
As natural as walking is to us tail-less bipedal mammals, the fact of the matter is that it took many evolutionary adaptations to make this act of controlled falling forward work (somewhat) reliably. It’s therefore little wonder that replicating bipedal walking (and running) in robotics is taking a while. Recently a Chinese humanoid robot managed […]
On October 23, local time in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Pony.ai signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Emile Weber, a transportation company in Luxembourg. The two parties will collaborate to promote the research and deployment of autonomous driving vehicles and technology in Luxembourg. In addition, Pony.ai has established a European R&D center in […]