TREND REPORTS
Humanoid Companies Are Targeting Multiple Industries
[Business]
2024/04/17 09:05
Humanoid robots have already made a big splash this year, with funding reaching a new record just 3 months into 2024.A handful of developers are targeting 2024 to release their humanoid robots, which are designed to perform tasks similar to humans.Technologies like generative AI and reinforcement learning are helping drive this progress. However, the impact will be limited at first, and it will...
The World's Most Successful Music Festivals
[Business]
2024/04/17 09:04
The advent of large-scale music streaming in the early 2010s was seen as a godsend for an industry struggling with illegal downloads and problems adapting successful digital media solutions. While labels and platforms like Spotify, Amazon Prime Music or Apple Music profit to this day, medium-sized artists rarely see the returns of the streaming boom.With live music, it's different, with many ac...
Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2023 : MWM Easy to Take Clothes Washing Machine
[Design]
2024/04/17 09:03
MWM offers a unique design that allows it to be used both horizontally and vertically, providing flexibility and convenience to users.This innovation aims to enhance user experience, comfort, and product reliability, distinguishing itself from existing products in the market.Institution: Lishui Handian Industrial Design Co. / ChinaDesign: Ruan Zhou[reddot]
(PDF) HAI - 2024 AI Index Report : Measuring Trends in AI
[Business]
2024/04/16 09:10
Welcome to the seventh edition of the AI Index report. The 2024 Index is our most comprehensive to date and arrives at an important moment when AI’s influence on society has never been more pronounced. This year, we have broadened our scope to more extensively cover essential trends such as technical advancements in AI, public perceptions of the technology, and the geopolitical dynamics surrou...
(Video) Expression-Matching Robot Will Haunt Your Dreams
[Tech]
2024/04/16 09:09
Most of the best robots, ones that can walk, run, climb steps, and do parkour, do not have faces, and there may be a good reason for that. If any of them did have mugs like the one on this new research robot, we'd likely stop in our tracks in front of them, staring wordlessly as they ran right over us.Building robots with faces and the ability to mimic human expressions is an ongoing fascinatio...
Tesla to Lay Off More Than 10% of Staff Globally as Sales Fall
[Business]
2024/04/16 09:08
Tesla management told employees Monday that the recent layoffs — which gutted some departments by 20% and even hit high performers — were largely due to poor financial performance, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.The layoffs were announced to staff just a week before Tesla is scheduled to report its first-quarter earnings. The move comes as Tesla has seen its profit margin n...
U.S. & China Dominate The Art Market
[Consumer]
2024/04/16 09:07
April 15 is World Art Day, a day dedicated to promoting the development and enjoyment of art.The following chart looks at the results of public auctions of art works registered between January 1 and December 31, 2023 by Artron and Artprice, a company dedicated to the analysis of art market information from databases with millions of auction records. This study refers to auctions of paintings, s...
(Video) Tiny Electric Robovan Cleans 1 Million Square Feet of Road
[Product]
2024/04/16 09:06
The Robosweeper S1 is designed to work in parks, traffic lanes, river banks and sidewalks.Keeping bike paths and roads clear of debris is a necessary but thankless task for sanitation workers. The Robosweeper S1 from WeRide can work alongside street crews, or can work alone to quietly clean up day or night.WeRide was founded in 2017 by the former chief scientist at Baidu's autonomous driving la...
Netflix Has Been Cutting Content Spending
[Business]
2024/04/16 09:05
Netflix is still trying to nail movies.Netflix’s new movie chief is already shaking things up. Just two weeks into his tenure, Dan Lin has laid off 15 employees in the film department (~10% of its staff) and reorganized the division by genre instead of budget level, as the streaming giant looks to produce a wider spectrum of films.Lin’s new vision for one of Netflix’s highest profile departm...
