Physical car crash testing used to cost roughly a million dollars per prototype with only a couple tests possible.
HARDWARE
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Reachy Mini Praised as Coolest Social Robot at HRI 2026
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TFW the R&D boss of arguably the oldest and most legendary robotics lab in the world stops you at a conference to tell you that your robot is "the coolest social robot in the world" Pollen Robotics (@pollenrobotics) "The coolest social robot in the world" As HRI 2026 in Edinburgh showed us, Reachy Mini already holds a special place in your hearts. Step by step, it is becoming the ideal companion for your projects, and your interactions with our robot encourage us to make it even better! — https://nitter.net/pollenrobotics/status/2040350732042285501#m
→ View original post on X — @thom_wolf, 2026-04-04 15:25 UTC
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Gemma 4 directs SAM 3 and RF-DETR for local video analysis
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Gemma 4 watches raw video. Understands the scene. Then prompts SAM 3 to segment and RF-DETR to track.
— Maziyar PANAHI (@MaziyarPanahi) 4 avril 2026
One AI directing two others. Fighter jets. Crowds. Aerial defense footage.
All three models running locally on a MacBook. No cloud.
What scene should I point this at next? pic.twitter.com/vNVgVloAGBGemma 4 watches raw video. Understands the scene. Then prompts SAM 3 to segment and RF-DETR to track. One AI directing two others. Fighter jets. Crowds. Aerial defense footage. All three models running locally on a MacBook. No cloud. What scene should I point this at next?
→ View original post on X — @huggingface, 2026-04-04 14:44 UTC
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Building Robots with First-Person Vision Technology
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Seeing Through Its Own Eyes: Building a #Robot with True First-Person Vision
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 4 avril 2026
via @WevolverApp
#AI #MachineLearning #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology pic.twitter.com/RXvBV2ICJxSeeing Through Its Own Eyes: Building a #Robot with True First-Person Vision via @WevolverApp #AI #MachineLearning #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology
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DeepSeek V4: Chinese AI Model on Huawei Silicon
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DeepSeek is about to release V4, and for the first time, a frontier Chinese AI model will run natively on Huawei silicon. A brief analysis and why its much bigger than most people think. Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent have placed bulk orders for hundreds of thousands of
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McDonald’s Shanghai Deploys Humanoid Robots for Customer Service
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McDonald’s in Shanghai Deploys Humanoid #Robots to Serve Customers
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 4 avril 2026
by @CyberRobooo#Robotics #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #ML pic.twitter.com/SBN7APhw5ZMcDonald’s in Shanghai Deploys Humanoid #Robots to Serve Customers
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Neuralink to Restore Hearing and Vision With Brain Implants
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I am confident that Neuralink will restore hearing one day, just as we will restore vision with our Blindsight implant
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Local AI Models: A Comprehensive Testing Guide
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Here's a decent report about all the local models that people should be trying out on various machines.
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Radeon 9070XT GPU Setup Guide for LLM Models
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Here is its answer: That's a solid setup — you're leaving a lot on the table with Llama 3.1 8B. Here's what your hardware can actually do: Your specs analyzed:
• Radeon 9070XT 16GB VRAM — RDNA 4, ~640 GB/s bandwidth. This is the key. 16GB VRAM fits most 14B models entirely in