Robots with different bodies can now share skills: What intention-based learning changes

Robots are increasingly being used in manufacturing, agriculture and health care. But programming a team of robots to carry out individual tasks raises a question: How can robots learn from other robots if they are built differently? A multi-institutional team including Chongjie Zhang, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at WashU McKelvey Engineering, …

AI benchmark helps robots plan and complete their chores in the real world

No matter how sophisticated they are, robots can often be indecisive and struggle with multi-step chores in the real world. For example, if you tell a robot to tidy a messy room, it might understand the goal but not know where to grab each object. It could even end up inventing steps. To address these …

[Update] ComfyUI VACE Video Joiner v2.5 – Seamless loops, reduced RAM usage on assembly

Github | CivitAI Point this workflow at a directory of clips and it will automatically stitch them together, fixing awkward motion and transition artifacts. At each seam, VACE generates new frames guided by context on both sides, replacing the seam with motion that flows naturally between the clips. How many context frames and generated frames …

Less Gaussians, Texture More: 4K Feed-Forward Textured Splatting

Existing feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting methods predict pixel-aligned primitives, leading to a quadratic growth in primitive count as resolution increases. This fundamentally limits their scalability, making high-resolution synthesis such as 4K intractable. We introduce LGTM (Less Gaussians, Texture More), a feed-forward framework that overcomes this resolution scaling barrier. By predicting compact Gaussian primitives coupled with …

Human creativity still resists automation: Artists rank highest, with unguided AI coming in last

New research confirms it: the creativity of artificial intelligence (AI) is a myth. Although current generative AI models may appear to be autonomous creative agents, analyzing their imaginative process step by step reveals that their creative abilities are not genuine. This is the conclusion of a new study published in Advanced Science and led by …