I'm very excited to finally announce one of the most ambitious projects we've worked on — which makes the front cover of Science Robotics today:
☀️ Learning a Thousand Tasks in a Day ⭐️
Everyday tasks — like those below — can now be learned from a single demonstration each...
SPD-X: The Multi-Legged Robot for Safer Pipeline Inspections
A robot with 16 legs and a 360-degree camera is developed to operate in challenging environments like sewage pipelines and other confined spaces. This sewer maintenance robot is developed by the Tokyo-based company Tmsuk Corporation. Building upon its predecessor, the SPD1, the SPD-X introduces significant advancements in durability, stability, and functionality.
Video source: Tmsuk Corporation
#robotics #technology #engineering #stem #innovation #robots #pipeline #inspection
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“Ventral Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons Regulate Decision-Making or Motor Impulsivity Differentially Across Learning and Biological Sex” by Tristan Hynes et al. Journal of Neuroscience
https://t.co/wXnnd6O84d
@oscar_puente_ Tenga a bien hacerlo viral señor Ministro. Tanto que dicen, pues al ver el ridículo que hicieron los senadores de la oposición... van a tener razón. 🤣
Every robot you see is a data firehose generating terabytes of chaos.
This hidden crisis is the #1 reason robots fail, and it's costing the industry billions.
You see hardware, but not the data swamp drowning engineers.
In 2025, a quiet revolution is fixing it. Here’s how. 🧵
Lo del islam y una parte de la izquierda es absolutamente demencial
En vez de pensar: "Bueno, el cristianismo tiene privilegios en España, deberíamos reducirlos porque queremos una sociedad laica"
Lo que dicen es: "Bueno, como el cristianismo tiene privilegios, vamos a promover que el islam también los tenga. Así tenemos que luchar no contra una sola religión, sino contra dos"
El sentimiento de paternalismo de mucha izquierda con el islam es solo consecuencia de la falta de discurso y de una empatía autodestructiva
Cualquiera que lo piense dos veces sabe que no hay que igualar los derechos de las religiones hacia arriba, sino hacia abajo. El cristianismo debería estar como el islam, no el islam como el cristianismo
Ni degollar en espacios públicos, ni usar polideportivos, ni dinero público para el Opus, ni escuelas cristianas, y control absoluto de mezquitas construidas, iglesias y pagar el IBI
No se puede normalizar el islam. Suficiente tenemos con el cristianismo, que es algo que llevará cientos de años aguar
(Y esto no significa prohibir las religiones, porque eso no funciona. Significa no promoverlas en lugares públicos)
I am speechless. Pay attention to how exactly the playback is displayed on different monitors.
Genie 3 is mindblowing. I can’t even imagine what we will see end of this year.
US consumer spending is rapidly declining:
Personal expenditures adjusted for inflation fell -0.15% in the first 6 months of 2025, the biggest decline since the 2020 pandemic.
Excluding 2020, this marks the largest drop in 15 years.
Historically, such weakness has often signaled the onset of a recession.
Meanwhile, the personal consumption component of GDP rose at an annualized pace of +0.5% and +1.4% in Q1 and Q2 2025, the slowest 2-quarter growth since 2020.
Consumers are hurting from rising prices and a weaker labor market.
Just a ARMstrong Dex robot performing a 40 kg bicep curl to test its strength and control.
Developed by the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), ARMstrong Dex is a human-sized, dual-arm hydraulic robot built for disaster response. It’s designed to handle tough, high-force tasks in dangerous environments while moving with human-like flexibility.
Video Credit: Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI)
#robotics #robots #engineering
Cycling Boosts Brain Function in Parkinson’s Disease
Researchers have discovered that dynamic cycling may trigger long-term changes in brain circuits affected by Parkinson’s Disease.
Using recordings from participants’ deep brain stimulation implants, they observed that after 12 adaptive cycling sessions, brain signals related to motor control had measurably improved.
These signals did not change immediately, suggesting the benefit builds over time.
The adaptive bikes, which change resistance in real time, may encourage beneficial neural flexibility.
The study marks a new frontier in understanding how exercise might rewire the brain in Parkinson’s.
It also points toward exercise as a potent, low-cost complement to traditional treatments.
This paper will change how we think about LLM inferencing. 🔥
An alternative to Chain-Of-Thought, instead nspired by how the human brain utilizes distinct systems for slow, deliberate planning and fast, intuitive computation.
Gives us super fast reasoning vs SOTA LLMs with just 1,000 training examples and a 27mn param model.
Unbelievable how a tiny model from a tiny lab of Tsinghua + deep thinking, gets 40% on ARC-AGI and tear into complex sudoku and maze puzzles. 🤯
It removes token-by-token chain-of-thought generation.
Instead, Hierarchical Reasoning Model's (HRM) parallel processing allows for what Wang (Founder and CEO of Sapient Intelligence) estimates could be a “100x speedup in task completion time.”
This means lower inference latency and the ability to run powerful reasoning on edge devices.
📢 There are 3 efficiency techniques
a. Single forward pass reasoning: HRM performs all reasoning inside its hidden states and emits an answer in 1 network pass, while CoT-style LLMs build a long text trace first.
b. Constant-memory training: By replacing back-propagation-through-time with a 1-step gradient, training memory stays at O(1) instead of O(T), which shortens training iterations and improves GPU utilisation.
c. Adaptive Computation Time (ACT): ACT version averages only about one third of the compute steps of a fixed-depth baseline yet keeps the same accuracy, so inference cost per example drops roughly 2-3X, not 100X.
🔧 Final Takeaway
HRM hints that swapping endless layers for a small hierarchy plus cheap recurrence can give LLM‑level reasoning at Raspberry‑Pi costs. It also scales at inference: raise the ACT cap, and accuracy climbs further with no retraining.
🧵 Read on 👇
Breakthrough lung cancer treatment
Scientists have discovered a way to supercharge lung cancer treatment by transplanting healthy mitochondria directly into tumors, boosting the immune response and dramatically enhancing the effectiveness of chemotherapy.
When combined with cisplatin, this breakthrough reversed the tumor’s harmful metabolism and reactivated immune cells, all without increasing toxicity.