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Robotic dexterous grasping is a critical area of research and development, aimed at enabling robots to interact with and manipulate objects as flexibly as humans can. By enabling robots to handle complex tasks that require fine motor skills, dexterous grasping can significantly enhance productivity and efficiency. The first step to enabling human-like dexterous object manipulation for robots is through robotic dexterous grasping. However, validating dexterous grasping data has been a major challenge, as human annotations are impractical on a scale of millions of grasps. Without large-scale datasets, robotic dexterous grasping has remained under-explored compared to object grasping with parallel grippers. … Read more

The holiday season is upon us, and Google has some early presents for Android fans. A raft of new features are beginning to roll out today. They run the gamut from phones, to TV, to wearables, to the Google Messages app. Google has split its surprise feature drop into two parts, with a special focus on Google Messages to celebrate 1 billion people using Google’s RCS. There are a lot of flashy emoji and reactions in the feature drop, but also something basic. You can finally create a profile in Google messages. The image and display name you choose will be … Read more

  Thank you all for participating! The entries are now closed and we will be selecting winners. For those selected, we will be reaching out on socials, so look out for a message. After we confirm eligibility, the list of winners will be posted here.   **Closed** To celebrate the release of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ we’re giving away 3 custom hardware bundles! The bundles feature a custom themed Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ Ryzen™ 7 7800X3D and Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX. Each bundle will be given away across 3 different social channels. To enter: Follow AMD handle @AMDGaming for X, … Read more

Programming robots for real-world success requires a training process that accounts for unpredictable conditions, different surfaces, variations in object size, shape, texture, and more. Consequently, physically accurate simulations are vital for training AI-enabled robots before deployment.  Crafting physically accurate simulation requires advanced programming skills to fine-tune algorithms, enabling robots to be trained in lifelike digital twins and tested across a wide variety of what-if scenarios that they may encounter. But even when organizations are able to build physics-based simulations, they are often so complex that only highly skilled robotics developers can use them.  NVIDIA Inception partner and deep tech startup … Read more

Yesterday at CES, AMD SVP and GM of Computing and Graphics, Jack Huynh, announced a number of new products across the company’s x86 processor, graphics, and AI businesses, including:      •Three new Socket AM5 CPUs with powerful, AMD RDNA™ 3 architecture-based integrated graphics      •Four new Socket AM4 CPUs variously optimized for gamers, efficient performance per watt, and budget system builders.      •The new AMD Radeon™ RX 7600 XT GPU, featuring a 16GB VRAM buffer to enable AI development along with higher game clocks and boost clocks. Let’s break down these announcements in a bit more detail, … Read more

MOVIE PREVIEW – One of the world’s most popular stage musicals moves to the big screen to become the biggest movie event of the year. The sequel to Wicked, which is now in cinemas, will be shown one year later, in November 2025.     Wicked is the untold story of the witches of Oz, starring Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, The Crimson on Broadway) as Elphaba, the unusual green a young woman misunderstood because of her skin color, who has yet to discover her true strength. The other main character of the film is Grammy-winning, … Read more

A reckoning has come for mobile app stores. Apple is, by all accounts, going to be forced to open up app distribution on the iPhone thanks to Europe’s Digital Markets Act, and Epic has bested Google in court to show that the Play Store is an illegal monopoly. In a separate case, Google was sued by numerous state Attorneys General and settled with all 50 states earlier this year. Now we know the nature of that settlement. Google won’t have to make extensive changes to its operations, but it will have to pay $700 million in restitution. The $700 million … Read more

NeMo Curator now supports images, enabling you to process data for training accurate generative AI models. NeMo Curator now supports images, enabling you to process data for training accurate generative AI models. Source

Well, that was a scary few days—Apple has convinced an appeals court to let it sell the latest Apple Watch hardware, pausing an import ban imposed by the International Trade Commission (ITC). So, you can once again head to Apple’s website or your nearest brick-and-mortar Apple store to get the Apple Watch Series 9 or Ultra 2, though for how long is anyone’s guess. The case was brought by Masimo, a medical technology firm you have probably never encountered. Masimo sells medical equipment to hospitals, and it claims that the blood oxygen sensor in Apple’s latest wearables infringes its intellectual … Read more

Producing commercials is resource-intensive, requiring physical locations and various props and setups to display products in different settings and environments for more accurate consumer targeting. This traditional process is not only expensive and time-consuming but also can be destructive to the physical environment. It leaves you with no ability to capture a new angle after you return home.  More organizations are overcoming these obstacles by developing 3D configurator solutions that provide enhanced flexibility and creativity. Developed with Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) and generative AI, product configurator solutions make creating hyper-personalized advertising content at scale a reality for advertising agencies. To … Read more