Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the ...
Tech Times

Inside Open-World Game Development: How the Game Design Process Creates Immersive Maps and NPC Systems

Discover how open-world game development works, from the complete game design process for creating vast maps to building advanced NPC systems that bring worlds alive.

Teaching machines to design molecular switches

In biology, many RNA molecules act as sophisticated microscopic machines. Among them, riboswitches function as tiny biological sensors, changing their 3D shape upon binding to a specific metabolite.
War on the RocksOpinion

Beyond the Missile: A Cost-Per-Effect Blueprint for the Future Force

Should the United States buy more destroyers, or would the money be better spent developing bases, munitions, or software?
IEEE

End-to-End Process Optimization in Polymer Extrusion Lines Using Model Predictive Control and Multi-Task Learning

Abstract: Due to the inherent complexity of modern polymer extrusion lines caused by nonlinear, dynamic behavior with numerous influential factors, disturbances lead to higher scrap rates and ...
United States Army

Reinforcing the Foundation: The Importance of NCOs Learning the Staff Process

This article underscores the critical need to integrate Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) into the Army’s staff operations process through training.
IEEE

Flying Vines: Design, Modeling, and Control of a Soft Aerial Robotic Arm

Abstract: Aerial robotic arms aim to enable inspection and interaction in otherwise hard-to-reach areas from the air. However, many aerial manipulators feature bulky or heavy robot manipulators ...