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Learning to Play Like a Pro: Adaptive Motion Planning and Tracking for Humanoid Robots

This White Paper provides roboticists and control engineers with a comprehensive overview of how motion planning and motion tracking can be decoupled to preserve professional athletic style in humanoid robots, and why adaptive, speed-aware control is essential for closing the gap…

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Honeyjar offers AI tools to improve PR and comms at every company

Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make things better?

Hackers Overheat Fridges at Supermarkets Across France, Wasting Food and Starting Fires

Fridges and freezers at hundreds of stores reportedly surged to temperatures up to 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius).

Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy

If you’ve ever wondered how Claude and similar AI agents can answer complex questions in seconds and where they get the information, you’re not alone. Gurmeet Saran works to find that answer every day as an engineer at Anthropic in San Francisco, the AI research company behind Cl…

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The Download: moon city problems and drone traffic controllers

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Mars may be a hellhole, but the moon is not far behind The US and China are racing to build bases on the moon, with NASA hoping to establish a…

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This AI startup says it can generate permit-ready blueprints in minutes

Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch.

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Tactile-sensor maker Matrix Innovation raises tens of millions of RMB

Dongguan-based tactile-sensor maker Matrix Innovation has raised tens of millions of RMB from investors including X Square Robot, Songshan Lake investment capital and returning investor XBOT PARK Fund, STAR Market Daily reported on October 10. Another embodied-AI company also par…

Huawei Details Xingji Positioning: Lane-Level Fixes in Tunnels, Floor Detection in Parking Garages

Huawei's new Xingji positioning stack fuses short-range chips, GNSS carrier phase, AI speed estimation and 3D road matching for tunnels, garages, malls, running tracks and ski slopes.

Microsoft to deploy over a million Maia 300 AI chips to cut Nvidia reliance

Microsoft plans to deploy over a million of its third-generation Maia 300 AI chips next year, a direct bid to cut its reliance on Nvidia hardware. Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Seres’ Huawei-linked EV brand AITO plans European entry in 2027

AITO plans to enter Europe in 2027 and has begun the EU Whole Vehicle Type Approval certification process, CLS reported on October 12. The brand will present four SUVs at the 2026 Paris Motor Show: the AITO 6, AITO 7, AITO 8 and AITO 9. The certification work is part of AITO’s pr…

RDI Fund Announces First Cohort Of 19 Fund Managers, Eyes Deploying ₹7,131 Cr To Strengthen Deeptech Startups

Central government-backed ₹1 Lakh Cr Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Fund has approved 19 second-level fund managers (SLFMs) with a…

[Update] Alpha Wave Ventures Sells Lenskart Shares Worth ₹1,705 Cr

Update | October 12, 20:00 IST Lenskart early backer Alpha Wave Ventures has sold 2.64 Cr shares in a bulk deal…

Mark Stephens, a.k.a. Robert X. Cringely, Died at 73

Mary Alyce Stephens (née Neader), posting on Cringely’s Facebook account: Hello, this is Mary Alyce, Bob’s wife. I am coming to you with immense sadness to let you know that Bob passed away. His obituary follows. His family is not requesting anything, however, if you would like t…

Mars may be a hellhole, but the moon is not far behind

Welcome to the second space race. You can be forgiven for experiencing déjà vu. Last time, it was the Soviet Union and the United States vying to be the first to plant some flags. Now it’s a sprint to the lunar surface between America and China—alongside a host of varyingly frien…

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WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data

A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.

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DARPA Lift Challenge Won by Helicopter

America’s mad scientists all have one dream: DARPA money. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, regularly throws round sweet, sweet tax dollars to push the envelope on any number …read more

'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey

https://gist.github.com/svieira/619d60dea942a8d4498cba3bb6b1... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060269 Points: 200 # Comments: 92

The Prusa Core One+ INDX, a Troubled Multi-Extruder Upgrade?

The Prusa Core One+ INDX is an interesting upgrade to the base FDM printer by Prusa, featuring eight independent extruders – hence the INDX – that in theory should allow …read more

The Hexa-Bouncer May Be The Most Overengineered Thing You See This Week

Sometimes, you want to build a simple project– the minimum viable product that solves your problem and nothing else. Other times you might be feeling a little extra, and want …read more

Thinking will become a hobby

Article URL: https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/?li261008 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059204 Points: 220 # Comments: 283

"You didn't do it right"

Four sincere attempts at OKRs, four failures, and every time: "you didn't do it right." Maybe the framework doesn't fit you -- so how do you find one that does?

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Your Computer Memory is a Lie

When you first learn to program, memory seems pretty straightforward. You have a bunch of bytes, each with an address. If you want to read or write something, you specify …read more

How to Build Models Without Language, with Logical Intelligence

Something unusual happened in a public Sudoku experiment early this year.

WiFi Router Does Software-Defined Radio

Perhaps the most famous of software-defined radios is the RTL-SDR, which is very cheap because it’s a digital TV receiver that’s been pressed into service delivering raw I and Q …read more