4 sats \ 3 replies \ @l0k18 27 Jul 2023
A lot of fuss but the main thing is this is a material that can carry extremely high current without fusing. This means shrinking devices that are currently large due to cooling requirements, and enabling high efficiency electromagnets, like for magnetic levitation trains, and a further improvement in the efficiency of electric motors and solenoids.
In other words, now they can build the T800. Lab grown meat, superconductive compact drivers for robotic muscles. There is muscle-like materials even that contract when current is flowing, for fine movement.
But it will also probably mean faster integrated circuits, once they figure out how to make it into the nanowires of a microchip and the wires to the socket pins.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @l0k18 27 Jul 2023
Reminds me, I saw a pack of 'hydrolysed collagen' in the supermarket last week and examined the packaging and was completely un-enlightened as to the species of animal(s) it was extracted from. Just to add to the lab grown meat and a layer of greasy collagen bacon and you got your short lifespan infiltration autonomous humanoid robot. I'm sure that James Cameron is getting rather excited.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @zuspotirko 27 Jul 2023
Oh right. Discovering a material and actually making super efficient devices out of it are 2 different challenges
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @l0k18 27 Jul 2023
Yeah, this is just the beginning of the R&D towards efficient production. New things like this tend to be very expensive prototypes and often as much as a decade before they are going to get into any commercial product even on the high end. DARPA might be using it in 5 years time on a no bid contract that costs infinity cuckbucks.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jk_14 26 Jul 2023
https://twitter.com/alexkaplan0/status/1684044622740193280
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 26 Jul 2023
The paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008
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