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Robots are bringing new life to extinct species

A peek at the internal arrangement of the ammonite robots, which span about half a foot in diameter. PETERMAN, [website], AND RITTERBUSH, [website] 2022. “RESURRECTING EXTINCT CEPHALOPODS WITH BIOMIMETIC ROBOTS TO EXPLORE HYDRODYNAMIC STABILITY, MANEUVERABILITY, AND PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS ON LIFE HABITS.” SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 12: 11287.

It’s straightforward to copy the shell size and shape from the fossils, but the real test comes when the robot hits the water. Mass distribution is everything; an unbalanced creature will flop and bob around. To avoid that problem, Peterman added internal counterweights to compensate for a battery here or the jet thruster there. At the same time, he had to account for the total mass to achieve neutral buoyancy, so that in the water the robot neither floated nor sank.

A 3D-printed ammonite robot gets ready to hit the water for a drag race. “We were getting paid to go play with robots and swim in the middle of a work day,” Peterman says. “It was a lot of fun.” DAVID PETERMAN.

Then came the fun part—robots of different shell sizes ran drag races in the university’s Olympic-sized swimming pool, drawing the curiosity of other gym-goers. What Peterman found was that the shells had to strike a tricky balance of stability and maneuverability. There was no one best structure, the team concluded. Narrower shells were stabler and could slice through the water while staying upright. Conches that were wider were nimbler, but ammonites would need more energy to maintain their verticality. The shell an ancient ammonite adopted was the one that suited or eventually shaped its particular lifestyle and swimming form.

This bichir-inspired robot looks nothing like a bichir, with only a segmented frame (in black) that allows it to writhe and flap like the fish. The researchers gradually tweak the robot’s aspects, on the hunt for the minimum physiology an ancient fish would need in order to walk on land for the first time. MICHAEL ISHIDA, FIDJI BERIO, VALENTINA DI SANTO, NEIL H. SHUBIN AND FUMIYA IIDA.

What if roboticists have no fossil reference? This was the conundrum faced by Michael Ishida’s team, who wanted to superior understand how ancient marine animals first moved from sea to land nearly 400 million years ago and learned to walk.

Lacking transitional fossils, the researchers looked to modern ambulatory fishes. A whole variety of gaits are on display among these scaly strollers—the four-finned crawl of the epaulette shark, the terrestrial butterfly stroke of a mudskipper. Like the converging roads in Rome, multiple ancient fishes had independently arrived at different ways of walking. Ishida’s group decided to focus on one particular gait: the half step, half slither of the bichir Polypterus senegalus.

Admittedly, the team’s “robofish” looks nothing like the still-extant bichir. The body consists of rigid segments instead of a soft, flexible polymer. It’s a drastically watered-down version, because the team is hunting for the minimum set of elements and movements that might allow a fishlike creature to push forward with its appendages. “‘Minimum’ is a tricky word,” Ishida says. But robotic experiments can help rule out the physically implausible: “We can at least have some evidence to say, yes, with this particular bone structure, or with this particular joint morphology, [a fish] was probably able to walk on land.” Starting with the build of a modern fish, the team simplified the robot further and further until it could no longer sally forth. It was the equivalent of working backwards in the evolutionary timeline.

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Thunderful Gothenburg becomes Stormteller Games

Thunderful Gothenburg unveiled today that it has rebranded with a new name: Stormteller Games. , this new name signifies a new chapter in its history, describing the rainy weather of Gothenburg while simultaneously paying tribute to Thunderful. The studio plans to launch its first game under its new title, Lost in Random: The Eternal Die, later this year.

GamesBeat spoke with studio head Johan Petersson about the rebrand, and he stated that the entire studio participated in the rebrand: “One thing we’ve done that that has been quite great over the past year — and it’s basically taken a year to get to this point — is that we involved everybody, to make sure it represents everyone in the studio. We started back last spring, just brainstorming with everybody who wanted to be part of this. And it was clear pretty early that they wanted to tie it back to Gothenburg.”.

Thunderful Gothenburg itself began in 2017 from a merger of Image & Form and Zoink! Games — and, as Petersson says, the two studios never really connected in a new culture after the merge, both having different approaches to game development. As such, the rebrand in part helped to properly coalesce the two studios into a single entity, though he noted that they had to delay due to Thunderful’s less-than-favorable 2024 — the studio restructured twice during the year and laid off hundreds of people.

Petersson told GamesBeat that the studio plans to approach games from a gameplay-first perspective, adding that they’ve also iterated on the new Lost in Random title based on player feedback from the first game. “Our approach now is we try to take the best parts of both studios as we move forward. One of the things I’ve always been really adamant about is making sure we have a sustainable approach to making games, so making sure we don’t end up with crunch in the end… We also approach games gameplay first, so kind of iterating until we find the fun in the games we’re making.”.

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Trump Administration wants the US to produce the ‘most powerful’ AI chips

JD Vance took to the stage at the Paris AI Action Summit on Wednesday declaring that, “the United States of America is the leader in AI and our administration plans to keep it that way.”.

“The US possesses all components across the full AI stack, including advanced semiconductor design, frontier algorithms, and, of course, transformational applications,” Vance stated. “Now the computing power this stack requires is integral to advancing AI technology, and to safeguard America’s advantage, the Trump administration will ensure the most powerful AI systems are built in the [website] with American-designed and manufactured chips.”.

“ some foreign governments are considering tightening the screws on [website] tech companies with international footprints,” Vance expressed. “Now America cannot and will not accept that.”.

He also discussed the technology’s power demands, arguing that these evolving AI systems need reliable electricity supplies and access to high-quality semiconductors, but lamented that many countries are instead choosing to eliminate stable findings of power from their national grids. Ironically, Vance also warned against nations cozying up to authoritarian regimes, claiming that partnerships with such nations would not be profitable in the long-term.

“Some of us in this room have learned from experience, partnering with them means chaining your nation to an authoritarian master that seeks to infiltrate, dig in, and seize your information infrastructure,” VP JD Vance noted. “Should a deal seem too good to be true, just remember the old adage that we learned in Silicon Valley, ‘If you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product.’”.

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