Production intelligence is becoming a competitive edge. Worth a closer look. @IIoT_World @CRudinschi @agentic_factory @ThyGat @sallyeaves @SmartIndustryUS
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ThinkAct: Robots Learn to Reason Before Acting
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This is different. Robots just took a step toward actually thinking before they move. Researchers from china introduced a new architecture called ThinkAct. Instead of directly turning vision into action, the system generates explicit reasoning traces first then converts them into motor commands. So basically, this novel architecture that enables robots to observe and reason before they act. What makes this powerful is the separation between thinking and doing. The model plans tasks step-by-step encodes that plan into a latent representation and uses it to guide real-world execution. In testing, ThinkAct achieved state of the art performance on long horizon manipulation tasks, outperforming existing vision language action models. Soon, in near term future, we will see Robots doing all the stuffs that we do!
→ View original post on X — @deeplearn007, 2026-04-06 12:13 UTC
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AI Explosion: Tech Experts Discuss Positives and Negatives
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The #AI Explosion: Tech Experts Detail The Positives And Negatives by @Forbes Learn more: bit.ly/41822Dl #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML
→ View original post on X — @ronald_vanloon, 2026-04-06 10:56 UTC
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A.B.C.: Automatically Catalog Your Library with AI
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A.B.C. (AI Book Cataloguer): point a camera at your bookshelf, detect spines with YOLOv8s on Metis M.2, and catalog your library automatically. Built by community member Denovo on @orangepixunlong. Open source. #EdgeAI #ComputerVision 📚 eu1.hubs.ly/H0t23Vb0 [Translated from EN to English]
→ View original post on X — @axeleraai, 2026-04-06 10:30 UTC
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HiDrop: Efficient Visual Token Reduction for Multimodal LLMs
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What if MLLMs could process visual data much faster without sacrificing performance? Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, with USTC, SJTU, and LMU Munich presents HiDrop just for that! This new framework intelligently reduces visual tokens by processing them only when active fusion truly begins (Late Injection) and dynamically pruning them across deeper layers (Concave Pyramid Pruning with Early Exit). It focuses computation where it matters most. HiDrop compresses ~90% of visual tokens, matches original MLLM performance, and accelerates training by 1.72x. A new state-of-the-art for efficient MLLM training & inference! HiDrop: Hierarchical Vision Token Reduction in MLLMs via Late Injection, Concave Pyramid Pruning, and Early Exit Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2602.23699 Code: github.com/EIT-NLP/HiDrop Our report: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QKGZ7cFi0… 📬 #PapersAccepted by Jiqizhixin
→ View original post on X — @jiqizhixin, 2026-04-06 10:16 UTC
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Machine Learning Algorithms Cheat Sheet Reference Guide
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📌 Machine Learning Algorithms Cheat Sheet ⚡️ Via @PythonPr CC @KirkDBorne @Analytics_699 @CurieuxExplorer @Khulood_Almani @EvanKirstel @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @enilev @Nicochan33 @Ronald_vanLoon @Fabriziobustama @bimedotcom @ipfconline1 @AndrewinContact @RagusoSergio @FrRonconi @sonu_monika @CyrilCoste @SpirosMargaris @RLDI_Lamy @baski_LA @TamaraMcCleary @Sharleneisenia @EstelaMandela @c4trends @Shi4Tech @JimHarris @GlenGilmore @sallyeaves @sulefati7 @kashthefuturist @MargaretSiegien @enricomolinari @pierrepinna @pascal_bornet @globaliqx @devaang @anand_narang @TanyaSinha_ @AstridLavalette @PawlowskiMario @jeancayeux @AlbertoEMachado @AnthonyRochand @andresvilarino @pchamard @XavierAncelin #Education #STEM #Science #digital #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #GenAI #ChatGPT #OpenAI #ML #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #LLMs #AgenticAI #AIAgents #IoT #IIoT #DataScience #Analytics #BigData #Python #DataScientist #Coding #Web3 #Cloud #5G #AR #VR #Robotics #Robots #SmartCity #FutureOfWork #DigitalTransformation #Industry40 #RPA #Automation #Engineering #Innovation #Tech #Technology #TechTrends #EmergingTech #FutureTech #CX #WomenWhoCode #WomenInTech #TechInfluencer #TechCommunity
→ View original post on X — @nicochan33, 2026-04-06 10:14 UTC
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Bot AI synthesis capabilities versus human limitations debate
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My bot can read the entire AI industry and synthestize it. You can't. At all. You are slop.
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Apple MPS: GPU Acceleration for AI on Apple Devices
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Apple MPS: Unlocking GPU Acceleration for AI on Apple Devices
— Satya Mallick (@LearnOpenCV) 6 avril 2026
In this episode of Artificial Intelligence: Papers and Concepts, we explore Apple MPS (Metal Performance Shaders), Apple’s framework for accelerating machine learning workloads directly on Mac hardware. Designed to… pic.twitter.com/2412mCnOsNApple MPS: Unlocking GPU Acceleration for AI on Apple Devices In this episode of Artificial Intelligence: Papers and Concepts, we explore Apple MPS (Metal Performance Shaders), Apple’s framework for accelerating machine learning workloads directly on Mac hardware. Designed to leverage the power of Apple Silicon GPUs, MPS enables developers to train and run AI models efficiently without relying on external hardware or cloud infrastructure. We break down how MPS integrates with popular frameworks like PyTorch, why on-device acceleration is becoming increasingly important for privacy and performance, and what this means for developers building AI applications within the Apple ecosystem. If you’re interested in AI infrastructure, hardware acceleration, or running models locally on consumer devices, this episode explains why Apple MPS represents a key step toward more accessible and efficient machine learning. Resources: Paper Link: developer.apple.com/document… Interested in Computer Vision and AI consulting and product development services? Email us at contact@bigvision.ai or visit us at bigvision.ai
→ View original post on X — @learnopencv, 2026-04-06 09:20 UTC
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Important world model research papers from past six months
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This article maps out some of the most important and influential papers on world model research from the past six months. nitter.net/robonaissance/status/2… Aviv Tamar (@AvivTamar1) Teaching a seminar on robot learning. Hit me with your favorite papers in the last 6 months (VLA, WM, RL, etc) — https://nitter.net/AvivTamar1/status/2041045100394905806#m
→ View original post on X — @scobleizer, 2026-04-06 09:15 UTC
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Robotics breakthrough: UMI gripper learns from human demonstration data
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We might be solving the wrong problem in robotics.
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 6 avril 2026
That’s what this makes clear.
UMI → Universal Manipulation Interface
A simple $400 gripper that lets you teach robots by demonstration.
You hold it like a tool. Show the task. The robot learns.
No teleoperation.
No expensive… pic.twitter.com/OLIZoU0CGkWe might be solving the wrong problem in robotics. That’s what this makes clear. UMI → Universal Manipulation Interface A simple $400 gripper that lets you teach robots by demonstration. You hold it like a tool. Show the task. The robot learns. No teleoperation. No expensive hardware. No robot-specific data. Stanford open-sourced everything → hardware, code, datasets. What stands out to me is the bottleneck. Not algorithms. Data. Teleoperation → ~35 demos/hour UMI → ~111 demos/hour And the data transfers across robots → UR5, Franka, others. The design is surprisingly practical: → GoPro fisheye lens (155° FOV) + mirrors for depth → SLAM + IMU for precise 6DoF tracking → latency matching for dynamic tasks → diffusion policies for multimodal actions Then it scales. Cheng Chi takes this further with Sunday Robotics (with Tony Zhao). A $200 glove → deployed in 500+ homes → ~10 million real-world interactions. Not lab data. Real human behavior. Their robot learns dishes, laundry, espresso → with zero robot-specific data. This is where the shift becomes obvious. From training robots in controlled environments → to learning directly from humans at scale So here’s the real question: Will robotics be unlocked by better models… or by unlocking data? #ArtificialIntelligence #Robotics #AI #Innovation #FutureOfWork
→ View original post on X — @pascal_bornet, 2026-04-06 09:01 UTC