Interesting Engineering

Humanoid robot masters tennis with 96.5% accuracy using simplified human motion

China’s new AI framework helps humanoid robots learn tennis using imperfect human motion, boosting speed, precision, and ...

Build an Excel Dashboard That Pulls CSV Data Without Opening Files

Learn how Excel IMPORTCSV refreshes linked CSV data, handles locale formats, and switches to IMPORTTEXT for semicolon delimiters.
IEEE

BT-TL-DMPs: A Novel Robot TAMP Framework Combining Behavior Tree, Temporal Logic, and Dynamical Movement Primitives

Abstract: In the field of learning from demonstration (LfD), enabling robots to generalize learned manipulation skills to novel scenarios for long-horizon tasks remains challenging. Specifically, it ...
Futurism

Google’s AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges

A bizarre new wrongful death lawsuit against Google alleges that the tech giant’s chatbot, Gemini, urged a 36-year-old Florida man named Jonathan Gavalas to kill others as part of a delusional mission ...
IEEE

A Unified Explanation Framework for Probabilistic Load Forecasting Via Feature Uncertainty Propagation

Abstract: The integration of renewable energy in modern power systems has increased the stochasticity of load patterns. Probabilistic load forecasting (PLF) acts as a solution to capture the ...
marktechpost

NVIDIA Releases DreamDojo: An Open-Source Robot World Model Trained on 44,711 Hours of Real-World Human Video Data

Building simulators for robots has been a long term challenge. Traditional engines require manual coding of physics and perfect 3D models. NVIDIA is changing this with DreamDojo, a fully open-source, ...