Engineers design soft and flexible ‘skeletons’ for muscle-powered robots
Engineers designed modular, spring-like devices to maximize the work of live muscle fibers so they can be harnessed to power biohybrid robots.
The words you use matter, especially when you’re engaging with ChatGPT
Do you start your ChatGPT prompts with a friendly greeting? Have you asked for the output in a certain format? Should you offer a monetary tip for its service? Researchers interact with large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, in many ways, including to label their data for machine learning tasks. There are few answers …
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A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress
While some states have made data privacy gains, the US has so far been unable to implement protections at a federal level. A new bipartisan proposal called APRA could break the impasse.
14 Best PlayStation VR2 Games to Play Right Now (2024)
If you want to jump into virtual reality, this headset and these games are a great place to start.
New privacy-preserving robotic cameras obscure images beyond human recognition
In a bid to restore privacy, researchers have created a new approach to designing cameras that process and scramble visual information before it is digitized so that it becomes obscured to the point of anonymity.
A scalable reinforcement learning–based framework to facilitate the teleoperation of humanoid robots
The effective operation of robots from a distance, also known as teleoperation, could allow humans to complete a vast range of manual tasks remotely, including risky and complex procedures. Yet teleoperation could also be used to compile datasets of human motions, which could help to train humanoid robots on new tasks.
Tesla Is Going All In on Robotaxis—Buckle Up
Autonomous vehicle tech has proven tricky for even the most sophisticated tech developers. But Tesla seems to be staking its future on it.
A framework to improve air-ground robot navigation in complex occlusion-prone environments
Robotic systems have so far been primarily deployed in warehouses, airports, malls, offices, and other indoor environments, where they assist humans with basic manual tasks or answer simple queries. In the future, however, they could also be deployed in unknown and unmapped environments, where obstacles can easily occlude their sensors, increasing the risk of collisions.
With little urging, Grok will detail how to make bombs, concoct drugs (and much, much worse)
Adversa AI researchers tested several jailbreak methods against seven top large language models, with Grok doing the worst and LLaMA the best.Read More
A TikTok Whistleblower Got DC’s Attention. Do His Claims Add Up?
Zen Goziker worked at TikTok for only six months. Many of his allegations about the company and the US government are improbable. But he still may have shaped how the app is viewed in Washington.