Behold Elon Musk’s Friendly Humanoid “Tesla Bot,” and Other News – SURFACE
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BY THE EDITOR Aug 23, 2021
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Elon Musk introduces Tesla Bot, a friendly humanoid robot with vehicle AI.
Will we live in a future where robots do our grocery shopping? Elon Musk seems to think so. On Thursday, the Tesla CEO unveiled a humanoid robot named Tesla bot running on the same AI used by the automotive brand’s fleet of autonomous vehicles. (Although a functional version of the robot did not show up during Musk’s reveal, a dancing performer was dressed like one.) The five-foot-eight-inch robot is built from “lightweight materials” and fitted with the autopilot cameras used by Tesla’s vehicles to power their To capture the environment. “It’s supposed to be kind,” Musk quipped, “and navigate a world built for people.” Musk also found that humans can easily overtake and overwhelm the Tesla bot, and even program it to eliminate repetitive tasks like shopping for groceries, despite calling AI the “greatest risk we face as a civilization” designated. “What we’re trying to do here at Tesla is to develop useful AI that people love and that is clearly good.” Is it a joke
The global engineering company AECOM is relocating its headquarters from LA to Dallas.
The company exodus from California continues AECOM, the multinational engineering firm that recently announced that it will move its global headquarters from Los Angeles to an existing office in Dallas by October. Although AECOM CEO Troy Rudd and other members of the C-suite will be relocating, more than 2,500 employees will remain in California. The Dallas-Fort Worth area has recently become an uncommon business magnet. more than 140 companies have relocated to North Texas since 2010, and more than 45 of those companies were previously based in California. Probably the guilty party is taxes: Texass business tax of 1% pales in comparison to California’s corporate tax rate of 8.84%.
Rendering of the planned expansion of MASP
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Brazil’s outstanding São Paulo art museum is planning a 14-storey extension.
One of the most important museums for modern and contemporary art in Brazil has significant Expansion plans. The Museu de Arte de São Paulo has announced the construction of a new 14-story building that will be separated from its existing two-story building, designed in 1968 by pioneering local architect Lina Bo Bardi. The new facility is named after her husband, the museum co-founder Pietro Maria Bardi, and is connected to the existing building by an underground tunnel. The new building, slated to open in early 2024, will add 75,000 square meters to the museum, 28,000 of which will be for gallery space on five floors.
Madison Avenue is lagging behind other retail centers as personal shopping picks up again.
Despite all the signs that brick and mortar retail is recovering after the pandemic ushered in reliance on e-commerce, some retail hubs are becoming left behind. Orbital Insight estimates that pedestrian traffic on Madison Avenue from 57th to 72nd streets is 71 percent of its 2019 level. Upper Fifth Avenue and Soho, two other major upscale shopping districts in Manhattan, are seeing more shoppers than they did before the pandemic. The closure of Barneys New York may be partly responsible, although Madison Avenue has little appeal to young people who tend to congregate in the downtown area. “You’re more likely to meet your friend down in SoHo for weekend brunch than at a museum on Madison Avenue,” said Ruth Colp-Haber, who runs Wharton Property Advisers Bloomberg. “They don’t want to go to Uptown – that’s where their parents and grandparents live.
Former Art Basel director Noah Horowitz comes to Sotheby’s as a “gallery whisperer”.
Noah Horowitz’s resignation from his position as Director of the Americas for Art Basel gave the art world an inkling of where he would go next. According to a recent report in Vanity fair, the enterprising executive landed at Sotheby’s in the newly created role of global director of gallery and retail services. In his new role, Horowitz will focus on strategy and building the auction house’s relationships with galleries and dealers. “With Noah’s arrival, we can serve the market to an even greater extent,” says Brooke Lampley, Chairman and Global Director of Sales, “by pooling all of Sotheby’s capabilities to foster creative and rewarding collaborations.”
The Tainan Public Library in Taiwan by Mecanoo and MAYU Architects. Photography by Ethan Lee
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The Dutch office Mecanoo receives the European Architecture Prize 2021.
Francine Houben and Dick van Gameren, the two leading architects of the Dutch design firm Mecanoo, have the renowned European architecture award. The award is presented by the European Center for Architecture, Art, Design, and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum and recognizes the winners for their contributions to design that strengthen the company’s overarching philosophy of “people, place and purpose”. In the announcement, Chicago Athenaeum President Christian Narkiewicz-Laine noted how Mecanoo’s projects “blend architecture, town planning, landscape and interiors in a non-traditional way” and how “over the years, functions have been learned inevitably change. It takes an astonishing degree of design flexibility and acute aesthetic skill to create buildings that are prepared for (un) foreseeable changes. ”Previous winners of the award include Henning Larsen, Manuelle Gautrand and Bjarke Ingels.
Frieze London is returning to the tent in Regent’s Park with an ambitious program.
Despite a one-year hiatus due to the pandemic Frieze London seems to have picked up exactly where it left off. The contemporary art fair returns to Regent’s Park from October 13th to 17th with a line-up of 276 galleries – almost as many as in 2019. These include Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner, Xavier Hufkens and Lévy Gorvy, the Frieze London Artistic Director Eva Langret says: “Approves London as one of the most exciting art capitals in the world that has weathered the pandemic with great resilience”. The thematic sections focus on time: Unworlding, organized by curator Cédric Fauq, proposes new models for the future while addressing the turbulence of the past year, and a new section called Stand Out sheds light on design and decorative arts. For those who cannot attend in person, the fair continues to offer virtual viewing rooms and complementary online programs.
A canopy in Malaga from local crochet teacher Eva Pacheco
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Today’s Attractive Distractions:
A documentary about a prolific television painter Bob Ross comes to Netflix.
Loro Piana is slowly making Juventus the best stylish team in Football.
Digital reconstructions show what the White House could have looked.
A massive one crocheted canopy cools down a shopping area in Malaga.
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