Humanoid robot could join China’s Chang’e 8 mission to the moon in 2028 An update on China's 2028 lunar mission reveals a humanoid robot on a four-wheeled spacecraft, intended to assist in moon exploration. 11/16/2024 - 12:09 am | View Link
The Robot Vacuum We Named Our No. 1 Favorite for Pet Hair Is $120 Off for Amazon Prime Members At Amazon, for instance, you can score discounts on top-rated cleaning equipment like the Eufy 11S Max Robot Vacuum, which we’ve deemed the best robot vacuum for pet hair out of the nearly 400 models ... 11/15/2024 - 8:21 pm | View Link
JD Vance plays with his three young kids as robot dog Spot stands guard at Mar-a-Lago Sons Ewan, 7, and Vivek, 4, and daughter Mirabel, 2, joined their father — with the children spotted each trying their own hand at dangling the branches into the water — as their mother Usha Vance, 38 ... 11/15/2024 - 6:55 am | View Link
The Onson 2-in-1 robot vacuum is a great gift for pet parents, and just $85 at Walmart The Onson 2-in-1 robot vacuum features both vacuum and mop functions to help clean pet hair and dirt. If you've had your eye on a robot vacuum but held off because of the price, or want to pick one up ... 11/15/2024 - 3:25 am | View Link
Humanoid robot may fly on China's Chang'e 8 moon mission in 2028 A Chinese mission to test resource technologies at the moon's south pole is taking shape — and may even include a humanoid form. 11/15/2024 - 3:00 am | View Link
A better way to control shape-shifting soft robots Here, a reconfigurable robot learns to elongate and curve its soft body to weave around obstacles and reach a target. Image: Courtesy of the researchers “Such a robot could have thousands of small pieces of muscle to control, so it is very hard to learn in a traditional way,” says Chen. 11/15/2024 - 9:23 am | View Website
A faster, better way to train general-purpose robots At the same time, each robot is mechanically unique, with a different number and orientation of arms, grippers, and sensors. Plus, the environments where data are collected vary widely. The MIT researchers developed a new architecture called Heterogeneous Pretrained Transformers (HPT) that unifies data from these varied modalities and domains. 11/15/2024 - 6:46 am | View Website
The new wave of robotic automation Peter Howard SM ’84 is the CEO of Realtime Robotics, a startup transforming autonomous robot motion planning to enable seamless, affordable human-robot collaboration. Realtime Robotics has developed a combination of proprietary software and hardware that reduces system deployment time by 70 percent or more, reduces deployment costs by 30 ... 11/14/2024 - 11:08 pm | View Website
Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter MIT engineers have developed a method that enables robots to make similarly intuitive, task-relevant decisions. The team’s new approach, named Clio, enables a robot to identify the parts of a scene that matter, given the tasks at hand. With Clio, a robot takes in a list of tasks described in natural language and, based on those tasks, it then ... 11/14/2024 - 2:11 pm | View Website
Robotics | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Combining next-token prediction and video diffusion in computer vision and robotics. A new method can train a neural network to sort corrupted data while anticipating next steps. It can make flexible plans for robots, generate high-quality video, and help AI agents navigate digital environments. October 16, 2024. 11/14/2024 - 1:06 pm | View Website
Taskovski Films Sales has acquired Miguel Calderón’s “Loss Adjustment,” ahead of its international premiere in the Envision Competition at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. The film follows Pedro, a loss adjuster, who travels across Mexico investigating the causes of major catastrophes while dealing with corrupt “scavengers” who profit from human tragedy.
Romanian director Radu Jude thinks it’s time for filmmakers to start taking TikTok seriously. During an in-conversation event at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Jude pulled out his smartphone and showed a series of TikToks to the audience, saying, “To me, TikTok is like the beginning of cinema. It’s like Lumiére.
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