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2021-12-03 10:32:42 Robots from https://www.engineeredarts.co.uk/
you can rent them for your event... Looks.. creepy?
just immagine combination of IA and this appearance

- @science - Open / Comment

2021-12-02 15:11:02 And that one I filmed in early spring Open / Comment

2021-12-02 15:10:08 Delivery bots from Yandex in snow Open / Comment

2021-12-01 13:21:01 Open / Comment

2021-11-25 17:25:00 Facebook is no longer Facebook, but Meta. And what does capitalism have to do with it? The essence of Facebook's rebranding is in the name. It reflects the new goals of the entire company and shows its transition from a simple social network to a Metaverse.… Open / Comment

2021-11-20 20:22:42 Alphabet is putting its prototype robots to work cleaning up around Google’s offices

The company announced today that its Everyday Robots Project — a team within its experimental X labs dedicated to creating “a general-purpose learning robot” — has moved some of its prototype machines out of the lab and into Google’s Bay Area campuses to carry out some light custodial tasks.
“We are now operating a fleet of more than 100 robot prototypes that are autonomously performing a range of useful tasks around our offices,” said Everyday Robot’s chief robot officer Hans Peter Brøndmo Open / Comment

2021-11-20 13:58:25 Just in time for METAverse launch researchers from MIT Media Lab presented their new invention. From a VR mask they made a sleep mask that records EEG, EOG, EMG, heart rate, head movement and skin temperature. While a person is sleeping, facial expressions and emotions are displayed in real time on their avatar in virtual reality.

Research has shown that facial muscle tension is consistent with the emotional content of the dream. Thus the dreamer is simultaneously in two quasi-realities: in his dream and in the metaverse, as an avatar.

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https://t.me/science/2624 Open / Comment

2021-11-19 22:03:22 Open / Comment

2021-11-18 16:07:59 Touch is important to the way people experience the world. We typically think of touch as a way to convey warmth and care, but it’s also a key sensing modality for perceiving the world around us. Touching provides us with information that’s not discernible through any other sense, for example, about the temperature of a matter, its texture and weight, and sometimes even its state. We want AI to be able to learn from and interact with the world through touch, like humans do. But for that to happen, we need to foster an ecosystem for tactile sensing in robotics. Today, we’re outlining our progress in developing hardware, simulators, libraries, benchmarks, and data sets — pillars of the touch-sensing ecosystem necessary for building AI systems that can understand and interact through touch.

Together, these pillars will allow us to train robots and AI to draw critical information from touch, and to integrate this information with others to accomplish tasks of greater complexity and superior functionality. Open / Comment

2021-11-09 18:54:18 Facebook is no longer Facebook, but Meta. And what does capitalism have to do with it?

The essence of Facebook's rebranding is in the name. It reflects the new goals of the entire company and shows its transition from a simple social network to a Metaverse. You've probably already read what Zuckerberg's Metaverse is (all news portals in all languages of the world have written about it at least a couple of times in the last couple of weeks).

And here's an idea worth discussing: the metaverse can save the humanity from big conflicts that emerge from the usual development of the human society. Here's an explanation in the video (english):

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Basically, humanity has been developing for centuries according to the capitalist model, providing itself with new markets through various types of colonization. But, since there is nothing left to colonize, in the literal sense of the word (economically or militarily) (the Russian Federation + a couple of other countries), the drive for finding new markets should inevitably lead to a major conflict. For some reason, the Russian Federation and the remaining two or three states do not want to become colonies. And Zuckerberg sees that. His metaverse, which global business hasn't yet colonized, opens up phenomenal opportunities for the continued development of capitalism. These opportunities, in their scope and scale, are quite comparable to the colonization in the time of Columbus.

What does this mean for you and me? There is a chance that there would not be any major troubles on planet Earth for the next number of years.

However, it seems like in the nearest decades the rapid climate change will become our biggest problem. Open / Comment