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SCI & TECH3h agoChina ‘robot trainers’ fold clothes, wash dishes 200 times a day for up to US$900 a monthAcross China, a new breed of freelance “robot trainers” are wearing motion-capture gear to turn everyday household chores – picking up cups, opening bottle caps and washing dishes – into data that will teach tomorrow’s machines. The data is later converted into training sets to help robots work in settings ranging from kitchens and factories to supermarkets. Such roles are increasingly advertised on mainland social media and job platforms. They reportedly pay trainers between 4,000 yuan and...South China Morning Post

SCI & TECH20h agoNvidia’s China AI chip market share falls to 34% as Huawei gains ground: IDCNvidia's market share in China's AI chip sector has reportedly fallen to 34% as Huawei gains ground, according to IDC. This signifies a notable shift in the competitive landscape of the Chinese artificial intelligence chip market.Seeking Alpha Tech

SCI & TECH23h agoChina-US astronomy team may have found possible relic of a recent ‘gold factory’A mysterious glow of high-energy light in our Milky Way galaxy could be the remains of an extremely rare cosmic “gold factory”, according to a new study by Chinese and US researchers. The collision of two orbiting neutron stars – dead stars so dense that a teaspoon of their matter would weigh a billion tonnes – may have shone as brightly as Jupiter in the sky, they wrote in a paper posted last week on the preprint server arXiv, which has yet to be peer-reviewed. The violent smash spewed out...South China Morning Post