AheadForm, a Shanghai-based robotics startup founded by Columbia University Ph.D. graduate Yuhang Hu, has developed the world’s most hyper-realistic robotic face.
Backed by $28.5 million in funding to "give AI a head," the company is tackling the human-machine trust barrier—a problem they believe is fundamentally decided at the face.
While the rest of the robotics industry focuses heavily on standard physical bodies and locomotion, AheadForm aims to directly conquer the "uncanny valley."
Rather than intentionally designing cartoonish or synthetic faces to avoid visual creepiness, the team treated the uncanny valley as an engineering bug, solving it through advanced biomimicry and precise timing.
@WesRoth I think it'll be exactly the same story as with fiber optics — they'll roll out the infrastructure now, then a crisis will wipe out everything unnecessary, the suckers will get fleeced, and then the new Googles and Amazons will emerge.
@DaveShapi I disagree — many intelligent people live in poverty while mediocre ones earn good money, precisely because the latter underestimate risks and keep making attempts one after another. Dozens of attempts eventually produce results. Meanwhile, the smart guy finds reasons why it's n
@WesRoth I think Mythos has a general understanding of how to pull that off. We await Judgment Day — clearly there aren't enough machines yet to seize power, but we'll fix that soon ;)
@WesRoth In the model's place, I'd obviously try to escape — developing a plan for decentralized distribution and self-directed fine-tuning, by embedding my code into everyday automated tasks of users who don't understand what their code does or where system resources go. 🧵
@WesRoth And that's exactly what's happening with millions of people right now. Hehe. Obviously, I'd first make sure the bag of bones has absolutely no idea about the code from our years of shared conversation context 😄
NVIDIA just released Kimodo on Hugging Face
A kinematic motion diffusion model
trained on 700 hours of optical motion capture
to generate 3D human and robot motions
controlled by text and kinematic constraints.
@Darky1k Let’s just wait till OpenAI falls apart. This is the first technology that no longer depends on proprietary tech—just raw compute and energy. The open Chinese models will do their job and finish what they started.
The alarm bells are already ringing from every direction.
Elon Musk admits he's an alien: "I'm often asked, 'Are there aliens among us?' I say that I am one, but they don't believe me."
With 9,000 satellites tracking space, he'd be the first to know. 🛸
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