Google launches Gemma 4, a new open-source model: How to try it

Google just released the latest version of its open AI model, Gemma 4, on Thursday. Crucially, Gemma 4 is a fully open-source ...
IEEE

Advancing Robot Interaction Safety: A Teleoperated Shared-Control Approach Using a Lightweight Force-Feedback Exoskeleton

Abstract: Tele-homecare has become a promising approach to meet the growing demand for elderly and disability care. In such a context, ensuring human-robot interaction safety during teleoperation ...
Futurism

Leaked Claude Code Shows Anthropic Building Mysterious “Tamagotchi” Feature Into It

Internet sleuths found a "Tamagotchi" feature buried in leaked source code of Anthropic's Claude Code chatbot.

Inside the 2-Year Project to Build a 6-DOF Robotic Arm From the Ground Up

This DIY 6-DOF robot arm project details a two-year build cycle using 3D printed parts, custom electronics, and over 5,000 ...

The Mechaneers: Award-winning rookie robotics team comprised of area students

A group of talented and dedicated kids – a mixture of homeschooled, private and public school students – have pooled together ...
IEEE

Robot Position Measurement Using Inertial Measurement Unit and Random Forest

Abstract: This research discusses an innovative approach to measuring robot position using Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), sensor fusion, and Random Forest. In this research, synthetically generated ...
Interesting Engineering

Chinese lab claims first humanoid robot control using space-based satellite inference

A Chinese laboratory has reportedly demonstrated the control of a humanoid robot via space-based computing. The experiment was conducted by GuoXing Aerospace Technology and Shanghai Jiao Tong ...
People

Woman Taken to Hospital After Being Startled by Humanoid Robot While Using Her Phone

"You're making my heart race," the woman reportedly said after the robot's proximity surprised her CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty A humanoid robot startled an elderly woman in China earlier this ...
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Who were the Blemmyes: The 'headless humans' that terrified the ancient world long before Bigfoot ‘Teen ghante bakwaas’: Asaduddin Owaisi slams Dhurandhar 2, asks ‘what’s in it beyond cuss words?’ ...
Wall Street Journal

When Humanoid Robots Come to a Small-Town Factory

CHERAW, S.C.—Inside a Schaeffler SHA0-0.43%decrease; red down pointing triangle auto-parts factory, a most unusual worker toils away. Stepping gingerly across the metal floor, it holds its ...
Ars Technica

Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...
The New York Times

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...