Home robots are coming. The first ones in will be the small ones that are safe around kids and pets.
Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics just opened pre-orders for Microduck, a $399 biped.
25cm, under 800g, 15 motors, a camera, a small LiDAR, two IMUs, and an articulated beak that picks things up.
Ships with 7 pre-trained behaviors including walking, kicking, and roller skating.
Open on GitHub under Apache-2.0: the SDK, the simulator, and the RL training pipeline. So you can teach it new tricks.
🇺🇸 A new commercial featuring Sydney Sweeney has sparked controversy, with critics saying that the respectable actress should not accept this level of sexualization and that she is "going too far," presenting a bad example for young females who may see her as a role model.
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The movie is a perfect summer film. Congrats to all involved and good luck to everyone!
The poster will not be for sale.
I was astonished by one of the central claims made by Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick in his recent article in Scientific American blasting UAP 'conspiracists.' Specifically, his claim that: "As of the time of my departure, none, let me repeat, none of the conspiracy-minded 'whistleblowers' in the public eye had elected to come to AARO to provide their 'evidence' and statement for the record despite numerous invitations."
I’m baffled because, in an effort to assist his investigation, I introduced Dr. Kirkpatrick to the former Director of the AATIP program, Lue Elizondo, as well as Dr. Eric Davis and Dr. Hal Putoff. Each of these prominent voices associated with the AATIP program spent hours briefing Dr. Kirkpatrick in a classified setting. None have received any feedback. Hopefully, the pending report to Congress on the alleged UAP recovery program will describe the specific claims made by these and dozens of other witnesses and what AARO did to evaluate them.
Your regular reminder that British public information films were like brutal horror films condensed into 30 second chunks, and shown during primetime (and children's) TV shows.
Protecting old growth forests is one of the best things we can do to mitigate the impacts of #climatechange. Sign the @standearth petition to protect the last giant trees from logging! #bcpoli https://t.co/jIJekYd1G3