DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Edward Kane, Journalist

DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF

By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane

YOUR NEXT PET - GO2 ROBO-DOG

Source: Unitree Robotics

Could this be your future pet? AI GPT large language model enabled robo-dog Go2 is empowered to talk & about as advanced in robo-pets as you can get
Innovated by China-based Unitree Robotics
Behaves just like your pet dog and better, including talking with you, greeting you when you come home, walking right beside you when outside and leaving no mistakes at home
Here are some of the things this very smart and athletic next-G robot can do through its technologies:

Converse thru its AI GPT that works and writes code in real-time for fluid conversations
Follow you at speeds up to jogging levels
Take HD photos of you and surroundings & send it to your smartphone
Athletics like play, fetch, run, dance, handstands down & up stairs, big jumps, summersaults, even run with your real dog
Responds to commands like shake paws, climb stairs, play music, etc.
Navigates with Lidar creating 3D models and maps of nearby objects
Plays your favorite music with its built-in speakers
Range on charge is 1 to 2 hours

NEW WALKING, FLYING, DRIVING ROBOT

Source: Caltech

Roboticists at Caltech have created what is undoubtedly the world's most mobile robot that flies, drives, walks and a lot more
In fact, using its AI and tremendous flexibility, it reconfigures its body to achieve 8 distinct types of motion
It's called M4 for Multi-Model Mobility Morphobot
M4 can autonomously assess the environment that it's in and choose the most effective combination of motions in order to maneuver through it
Here's what M4 can accomplish:

Rolls on 4 wheels
Converts its wheels into rotors and flies
Stands on 2-wheels to see over obstacles
Walks by using its wheels like feet
Uses 2 rotors and 2 wheels to roll up steep hills
Can tumble with dexterity and more
According to the Caltech team, M4 has many uses from transporting injured people to the hospital to exploring planets

The team's primary goal with M4 is to push the boundaries of locomotion for robots and they certainly have.

WORLD'S FIRST ALL-ELECTRIC AIRLINE

One of Britain's wealthiest businessmen and Climate advocates Dale Vince has started a new business, Ecojet, which he calls the world's 1st all-electric airline
By 2025, Ecojet will begin commercial passenger flights with a 19-seat aircraft and a 70-seat aircraft
Planes will be retrofitted with hydrogen-electric powertrains for zero-emissions flights
The eco-friendly, vegan business tycoon will start operations with flights from Southampton, UK to Edinburgh, Scotland
He'll then ramp up the schedule to include Europe, the US and Asia
Everything possible about Ecojet is environmentally correct including the plant-based food on board, no plastic utensils and staff in environmentally friendly uniforms
Vince, who has invested more than one million British pound sterling ($1.3 million) in Ecojet and is pulling in investment capital, hopes it will be the start of an aviation revolution by making a zero-emissions airline operational for the first time.

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