CHINA-TIBET: CHINA USING AI TO BUILD YANGQU DAM ON TIBETAN PLATEAU
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The South China Morning Post disclosed (May 8) that China is using artificial intelligence to
effectively turn a dam project on the Tibetan Plateau into the world’s largest 3D printer,
according to scientists involved in the project. The 180 metre (590 feet) high Yangqu
hydropower plant will be built slice by slice – using unmanned excavators, trucks, bulldozers,
pavers, and rollers, all controlled by AI – in the same additive manufacturing process used in
3D printing.” When completed the Yangqu hydropower plant will deliver nearly 5 billion
kilowatt hours of electricity each year to Henan province.
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