🤖 Toyota Unveils Punyo: Soft Robot for Everyday Tasks

Toyota's Research Institute introduces Punyo, a revolutionary soft robot designed to assist with daily chores. Punyo → lacks traditional legs but utilizes its torso to develop manipulation skills, aiming to augment human efforts rather than replace them.

Equipped with compliant materials and tactile sensors, Punyo's soft surfaces conform to objects, ensuring secure grasping and even force distribution. Its innovative bubble paws contain high-resolution tactile sensing cameras for autonomous task execution.

With learning mechanisms like diffusion policy and example-guided reinforcement learning, Punyo acquires robust manipulation skills through human demonstrations and simulated modeling. This breakthrough in robotic technology enables Punyo to handle tasks efficiently and safely, promising to revolutionize everyday assistance.

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👾 Kaspersky talks

Any IT system has potential vulnerabilities, and generative AI is no exception. More details in our report → from Kaspersky CyberSecurity Weekend held recently in Kuala Lumpur.

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🦾 NIO Introduces Humanoid Robot to EV Assembly Line

Chinese EV maker NIO (NYSE: NIO) is testing Walker S → humanoid robots at its EV assembly line to enhance automation levels at its factories. The Walker S robot, created by UBTECH, participates in quality inspections of door locks, seat belts, headlight covers, and even affixes vehicle logos, showcasing its ability to perform precise tasks traditionally done by humans.

With the assistance of Walker S, NIO can optimize its production processes, freeing up human employees to focus on tasks that require creativity and emotional intelligence, creating a harmonious blend of human and robotic capabilities on the assembly line

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😎 The best of the best

Paul du Rove has stated that during the massive outage, millions of people registered and shared content on Telegram for the last hour while Instagram, Facebook and other social networks were down.

The businessman is confident that Telegram is more reliable than other services, despite spending several times less per user on infrastructure. Telegram has about 1,000 times fewer full-time employees than Meta, but manages to launch new features and innovates faster.

In his post, Paul du Rove also noted that in 2023, Telegram was only unavailable for 9 minutes out of year's 525,600 minutes - that's 99.9983% uptime →

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🤩 Cosmic fashion

French designer Coperni has created a weightless bag → out of NASA aerogel, which is used to collect stardust in space. Made from one of the lightest materials known to science, the entire bag weighs just 33 grams, which is just over six sheets of A4 paper.

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🎨 Spark your creativity!

Adobe rolls out the beta version of Adobe Express, an app → that enables users to effortlessly create and publish social content on the go using advanced AI tools.

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📁 News from OpenAI

The company is undergoing a kind of shakeup → with new board members announced and CEO Sam Altman reinstated.

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❤ Simply the best

In an exclusive interview  → with the Financial Times, Pavel Durov reveals insights into Telegram's rapid growth, approaching profitability and potential plans for an IPO.

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🏁 Beating the Model S Plaid’s time

Meet the new Taycan Turbo GT → the fastest and most powerful EV from Porsche.

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