A robot learns to handle bulky objects like humans do after just one lesson

For all their technological brilliance, from navigating distant planets to performing complex surgery, robots still struggle with a few basic human tasks. One of the most significant challenges is dexterity, which refers to the ability to grasp, hold and manipulate objects. Until now, that is. Scientists from the Toyota Research Institute in Massachusetts have trained …

Made a local AI pipeline that yells at drivers peeing on my house

Last week I built a local pipeline where a state machine + LLM watches my security cam and yells at Amazon drivers peeing on my house. State machine is the magic: it flips the system from passive (just watching) to active (video/audio ingest + ~1s TTS out) only when a trigger hits. Keeps things deterministic …

Giuseppe Angelo Porcelli

Train and deploy models on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod using the new HyperPod CLI and SDK

Training and deploying large AI models requires advanced distributed computing capabilities, but managing these distributed systems shouldn’t be complex for data scientists and machine learning (ML) practitioners. The newly released command line interface (CLI) and software development kit (SDK) for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod simplify how you can use the service’s distributed training and inference capabilities. …

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The Agent Development Kit Hackathon with Google Cloud: Announcing the winners and highlights

The Agent Development Kit (ADK) Hackathon is officially wrapped. The hackathon wrapped up with over 10,400 participants from 62 countries, resulting in 477 submitted projects and over 1,500 agents built! Building on the excitement from our initial announcement, the hackathon proved to be an invaluable opportunity for developers to experiment with cutting-edge technologies and build …

WanFaceDetailer

I made a workflow for detailing faces in videos (using Impack-Pack). Basically, it uses the Wan2.2 Low model for 1-step detailing, but depending on your preference, you can change the settings or may use V2V like Infinite Talk. Use, improve and share your results. !! Caution !! It uses loads of RAM. Please bypass Upscale …