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If you thought the idea of a 100% human-free Ship-Store logistics network was some far-off sci-fi future, think again. It's almost here.

Several ports around the world are almost fully automated with minimal human intervention. Shanghai, Busan (South Korea), and Rotterdam in particular. Fully self-driving trucks that can do highway journeys are a thing too. Now robots have mastered unloading the trucks. Warehouse operations are moving closer to being human-free too.

What's left for humans? Self-driving is still at Level 4, and Level 5 is some way off. That means robo-vehicles can master predetermined routes they are trained on. But more and more they will get trained on highway exit-warehouse and highway exit-store routes. Even with just Level 4 driving this could be almost fully automated.

This all brings closer the day topics like Universal Basic Income go mainstream.

The Holy Grail of Automation: Now a Robot Can Unload a Truck

 

There are still some people who haven't realized just how fast and vast the global switch to renewables is. If you're one of them, this statistic should put it in perspective. China installed 93 GW of solar capacity in May 2025. Put another way, that's about 30 nuclear power stations worth of electricity capacity. All this cheap renewable energy will power China's industrial might in AI & robotics too. Meanwhile western countries look increasingly dazed, confused, and out of date.

China breaks more records with surge in solar and wind power

 

Is there finally about to be a Brexit dividend? The EU & US are placing tariffs on Chinese EVs, but Britain isn't. So British drivers will soon have a welcome choice. Cheap well-made Chinese EVs whose EV charging means they travel 100 kilometres for a third of the price an average combustion engine car does.

Yet another death knell for fossil fuels and combustion engine cars.

How China made electric vehicles mainstream

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[–] Lugh@futurology.today 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

then prescriptions should be done away with and all drugs should be available.

It used to be the way the world was. The result was huge amounts of addiction (laudanum was 10% opium), and gullible people being peddled snake oil.

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The bill, which was passed by the state legislature on April 29 and is expected to be signed by Governor Greg Gianforte, essentially expands on existing Right to Try legislation in the state.

The same people who are denying abortions & medical care to trans people, are all for "freedom" and right to choose when it comes to other people's medical choices?

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 1 points 2 months ago

…in a similar way as with conventional rental cars – which can be hired to transport people to “a range of destinations, including cultural landmarks and urban tourist attractions.”

Baidu, like everyone else, still hasn't got to true Level 5 self-driving. But it doesn't need Level 5 to be offering services like this. If you have mapped out the 100 most popular destinations in a city, and fixed routes between them, then level 4 self-driving like they have now, is all you need.

This isn't the same as a regular rental car you can drive anywhere, but many people would be happy with a car that covers a city's Top 100 spots. How does this differ from a taxi? Seemingly that you rent it for specified time slots, whether you're in the car driving or not.

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 6 points 2 months ago

Yes, Meta are 2nd, I amended the text.

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm pretty sure in Trump's addled brain he thinks if the US gets a human on Mars first & plants the US flag, he can claim the whole planet as belonging to the US.

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The accuracy rate will improve, sadly most of the developing word barely recycles anything.

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yes, for once taking the jobs humans don't want.

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unless they are trained otherwise, AI will pick up all the biases in its training data. So far, as that's the content of the entire internet, I'm not surprised at this outcome. I'd guess AI training is the next battleground for the woke/anti-DEI crowd, so they can preserve these prejudices.

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It often tends to be forgotten, but solar energy has a twin - renewable lunar energy - harnessing the power of the tides. Not everywhere in the world is suited to it. However, this company says there's enough of it to meet 10% of global electricity demand. Some places are especially well suited,, and they point out Alaska could get 100% of its electricity from tidal power.

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

For sure, I find it very useful for those purposes. But I think it says something significant so many people are using it for companionship.

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 4 points 2 months ago

This is a tentative result, it's only one patient, and large scale trials would be needed to confirm it. Still, if it is confirmed it's a significant breakthrough. HuidaGene is also working on treatments for Huntington's Disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD among other diseases. It's also working on various Ophthalmology related conditions.

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 2 points 3 months ago

I pretty sure that is the tariffs, this doesn't look like its replacing 20,000 just yet.

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