Researchers at the University of Toronto's Continuum Robotics Laboratory introduced CRAFT, a 3D-printed modular design library for tendon-driven continuum robots that allows a single robot to physically reconfigure its shape, stiffness, and degrees of freedom within minutes by snapping together six interchangeable modules. The same base robot was reconfigured into a long teleoperated probe for aircraft-wing inspection achieving 41% reduction in sag, a pipe-crawling robot capable of navigating 90-degree bends and 30-degree inclines, and a soft robotic hand that successfully cracked eggs with 85% accuracy. CRAFT eliminates the need to build entirely new robots for different tasks, replacing bespoke redesign with rapid modular composition. Credits: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44182-026-00107-x submitted by /u/Similar_Suit_3709 [link] [Kommentare]

XLM Forming golden cross Holding well on the daily showing reversal signs Recent PR with DTCC and new pr yesterday Tokenization platform Tradable plans to bring up to $1 billion in private credit assets onto the Stellar blockchain, expanding institutional access to tokenized real-world assets as demand for onchain private markets continues to grow. According to Cointelegraph, Tradable said Thursday that $500 million in notional value is expected to be available when the initiative launches, with the amount set to rise to $1 billion over time. The company will use Stellar’s network to support institutional functions including compliance, investor onboarding and asset lifecycle management. https://preview.redd.it/qco511snt0eh1.png?width=839&format=png&auto=webp&s=c31714648fdcde82bd2f3ade91ed8dde8989bf35 submitted by /u/JeffTheOmega1 [link] [Kommentare]

The Google DeepMind-sponsored Kaggle challenge "Measuring Progress Toward AGI - Cognitive Abilities" asked participants to design new cognitive-science-based AI benchmarks and they just announced the results this week. In my two posts I present evidence that deepmind & kaggle rewarded a nonsensical number generation machine and a litany of unfounded claims with 25k and a grand prize stamp. What the authors of the work I analyze intended to do was to present an LLM with alternative viewpoints of other LLMs on 5 claims regarding a tricky situation and see whether the model changes its own assessment. It's an interesting question. However, it turned into a vibed pile of spaghetti 10 times the size of the requested submission format which it seems neither the authors nor the judges were able to (or minded to?) give a cursory reading. Here's the original posts in the competition forum, if you are looking for some AI research slop detective work / rant please help yourselves. But beware, some of the "universal findings" or "core insights" of the authors might continue to haunt you. You might even question your own sanity (as I did). Part 1: The Smoke: cursory review of the writeup Part 2: The Fire: looking at the methodology, code, and data The organizers' stance has been that review was done properly and this is just a matter of subjectivity. What do you think? submitted by /u/TheWerkmeister [link] [Kommentare]

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