On August 13, the United States Treasury paid 5.22 percent to borrow for thirty years, the highest nominal cost at a thirty-year auction since 2001. Reuters reported the following day that inflation-adjusted borrowing costs across the major economies had reached their highest levels in more than a decade, with US thirty-year real yields near eighteen-year highs at around three percent, and British and German ten-year real yields at levels not seen in over ten years.
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Everyday Robots
A recent article via Evan Ackerman takes a look at Alphabet’s Everyday Robots. Several videos are provided via the article (a couple are included below). He provides an entertaining analysis of each video and some perspective as well.
(more…)I’m a little bit torn on this whole thing. A fleet of 100 mobile manipulators is amazing. Pouring money and people into solving hard robotics problems is also amazing. I’m just not sure that the vision of an “Everyday Robot” that we’re being asked to buy into is necessarily a realistic one.
Evan Ackerman – Years Later, Alphabet’s Everyday Robots Have Made Some Progress
Inside the Next Transition 