A startup named Figure has come out of stealth and is promising to build a humanoid similar to the much-hyped Tesla Bot.
IEEE Spectrum has a great write-up which notes that a) the company has a lot of impressive engineering talent onboard, but b) hasn’t shown off any hardware yet, just renders.
Still: it’s another serious effort which suggests we’re getting closer, however slowly, to a genuine general purpose robot.
XDA has an exclusive hands-on with a prototype pair of AR glasses by Xiaomi. They’re wireless, support gesture controls, and can switch between transparent and shaded modes.
But they’re also bulky as hell and a long way off commercial readiness. As we learned yesterday, Meta, too, is still betting on an AR future. But we’ve yet to see breakthrough hardware that can actually take us there.
Corridor Digital has another incredible video detailing their latest experiment with generative AI. The result is an over-the-top anime rendition of a game of rock, paper, scissors.
The output is incredible, but more interesting to me is the making-of video. You can see how quickly AI will change the world of VFX, but also the huge amount of work it takes to get this stuff right. Kudos, as ever, to Corridor.
Infinite AI Seinfeld was first. Now there’s infinite AI steamed hams. Watch in suspense, time and time again, as Principal Skinner faces that mythic challenge: passing off borrowed cooking as his own as his house burns around him.
Is is surrealist comedy? A form of meditation? Or just an allegory for the unending torment of our own lives? I think the latter. One must imagine Skinner happy.
