‘Butterfly bot’ is fastest swimming soft robot yet

Inspired by the biomechanics of the manta ray, researchers have developed an energy-efficient soft robot that can swim more than four times faster than previous swimming soft robots. The robots are called ‘butterfly bots,’ because their swimming motion resembles the way a person’s arms move when they are swimming the butterfly stroke.

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Palantir’s Response to the FTC on ‘Commercial Surveillance and Data Security’ Rulemaking

Suggestions for establishing a culture of data responsibility Introduction Part of building and deploying privacy-protective technology is also fostering a community of responsibility around its development and use. This idea is central to the mission of Palantir’s Privacy & Civil Liberties Engineering team. It is also a guiding principle that drives us to share our …

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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

by Christos G. Bampis, Li-Heng Chen and Zhi Li When you are binge-watching the latest season of Stranger Things or Ozark, we strive to deliver the best possible video quality to your eyes. To do so, we continuously push the boundaries of streaming video quality and leverage the best video technologies. For example, we invest in …

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Match Cutting at Netflix: Finding Cuts with Smooth Visual Transitions

By Boris Chen, Kelli Griggs, Amir Ziai, Yuchen Xie, Becky Tucker, Vi Iyengar, Ritwik Kumar Special thanks to Anna Pulido, Luca Aldag, Shaun Wright and Sarah Soquel Morhaim Creating Media with Machine Learning episode 1 Introduction At Netflix, part of what we do is build tools to help our creatives make exciting videos to share with the world. …