7-2-31
Getting oriented
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
I need to sit.
What just happened?
Okay.
Marty took me to the innovation hub.
As part of this week’s orientation.
I mean, they have everything.
There was a robotics lab where people were just building and prototyping.
Any design.
Humanoid.
Quad.
Gantry.
Soft.
Bug.
Tentacle.
Yes. Tentacle. Look it up.
And aviation.
There’s an EVTOL testing area.
Small and industrial.
I picked up a little test drone to bring back to the kids.
Vertical farms.
Not just lettuce.
The use AI and drones to produce enough to feed everyone in the city.
There were people iterating even there.
You should have seen those strawberries.
They were huge!
And even energy stuff.
Solar.
Fusion.
Little nuclear reactors.
Thorium.
Low risk. Highly modular.
I mean, this place is sci-fi as it gets.
But what do I do?
Where do I even start?
Mmmm tentacle robots, somewhat more distributed than humanoids... "a new type of soft, robotic gripper that uses a collection of thin tentacles to entangle and ensnare objects, similar to how jellyfish collect stunned prey. Alone, individual tentacles, or filaments, are weak. But together, the collection of filaments can grasp and securely hold heavy and oddly shaped objects. The gripper relies on simple inflation to wrap around objects and doesn’t require sensing, planning, or feedback control." https://seas.harvard.edu/news/tentacle-robot-can-gently-grasp-fragile-objects