January 2, 2025
Robotics

Navigantis performs first clinical cases with Vasco robotic platform – The Robot Report

Navigantis is developing a surgical robot for a wide range of neurovascular indications, including acute ischemic stroke. | Source: Navigantis Navigantis Inc. last week announced the first successful clinical procedures performed with its Vasco surgical robot for patients suffering from neurovascular disorders. The interventional cases involved patients undergoing diagnostic cerebral angiogram, brain tumor embolization, and mechanical thrombectomy for ischemic stroke. “This achievement marks an important milestone in our mission to introduce the advantages of robotic

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The Robot Report Staff January 2, 2025

Meet the Writer: HackerNoon’s Contributor Thomas Cherickal, Technological Content Writer

So let’s start! Tell us a bit about yourself. For example, name, profession, and personal interests. Hi! I’m Thomas Cherickal from Kerala living in Chennai, India, working as a Freelance Technological Content Writer. I have a Master’s Degree in Computer Science but I never took to Software Development and left commercial software development after two years for full-time writing. However, I have kept up a keen interest in software and I never stopped learning all

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Thomas Cherickal January 2, 2025
AR/VR

AARP’s AgeTech Investor Network is helping tech entrepreneurs target the aging population

AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons) has started its AgeTech Investor Network, aimed at helping startups get off the ground in the AgeTech market — which targets older populations. AARP’s AgeTech Investor Network is a collaboration with AgeTech Capital, expanding onAARP’s mission to support and elevate AgeTech startups by widening the opportunity for investment. Highlighted at the upcoming CES 2025, AgeTech was born from the fact that most technology products have been targeted

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Dean Takahashi January 2, 2025
Robotics

How does a hula hoop master gravity? Mathematicians prove that shape matters

Hula hooping is so commonplace that we may overlook some interesting questions it raises: “What keeps a hula hoop up against gravity?” and “Are some body types better for hula hooping than others?” A team of mathematicians explored and answered these questions with findings that also point to new ways to better harness energy and improve robotic positioners. The results are the first to explain the physics and mathematics of hula hooping. “We were specifically

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Editor January 2, 2025
Hardware

Valve reveals the top-grossing Steam games of 2024 by revenue

TL;DR: Valve announced the best-selling Steam games of 2024, highlighting new entries like Helldivers II, Palworld, and Black Myth: Wukong, each selling over 10 million copies. Established titles like Baldur’s Gate 3, Counter-Strike, and Destiny 2 also featured prominently. Steam set a new concurrent player record of 39.3 million. 2025 is here, and Valve has now capped off the new year by revealing the best-selling and best-earning Steam games of the prior year. VIEW GALLERY

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Derek Strickland January 2, 2025
Software

Wonder3D’s Evaluation Protocol: Datasets and Metrics | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Related Works 2.1. 2D Diffusion Models for 3D Generation 2.2. 3D Generative Models and 2.3. Multi-view Diffusion Models 3. Problem Formulation 3.1. Diffusion Models 3.2. The Distribution of 3D Assets 4. Method and 4.1. Consistent Multi-view Generation 4.2. Cross-Domain Diffusion 4.3. Textured Mesh Extraction 5. Experiments 5.1. Implementation Details 5.2. Baselines 5.3. Evaluation Protocol 5.4. Single View Reconstruction 5.5. Novel View Synthesis and 5.6. Discussions 6. Conclusions

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Ringi January 2, 2025

The Baseline Methods of Wonder3D and What They Mean | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Related Works 2.1. 2D Diffusion Models for 3D Generation 2.2. 3D Generative Models and 2.3. Multi-view Diffusion Models 3. Problem Formulation 3.1. Diffusion Models 3.2. The Distribution of 3D Assets 4. Method and 4.1. Consistent Multi-view Generation 4.2. Cross-Domain Diffusion 4.3. Textured Mesh Extraction 5. Experiments 5.1. Implementation Details 5.2. Baselines 5.3. Evaluation Protocol 5.4. Single View Reconstruction 5.5. Novel View Synthesis and 5.6. Discussions 6. Conclusions

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Ringi January 2, 2025
Software

Implementation Details of Wonder3D That You Should Know About | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Related Works 2.1. 2D Diffusion Models for 3D Generation 2.2. 3D Generative Models and 2.3. Multi-view Diffusion Models 3. Problem Formulation 3.1. Diffusion Models 3.2. The Distribution of 3D Assets 4. Method and 4.1. Consistent Multi-view Generation 4.2. Cross-Domain Diffusion 4.3. Textured Mesh Extraction 5. Experiments 5.1. Implementation Details 5.2. Baselines 5.3. Evaluation Protocol 5.4. Single View Reconstruction 5.5. Novel View Synthesis and 5.6. Discussions 6. Conclusions

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Ringi January 2, 2025
Software

Pump AI Challenges Virtuals, Focuses On Solana AI Agents With Meteora | HackerNoon

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, January 2nd, 2025/Chainwire/–Pump AI aims to be a major driving force for adopting Meteora via its advanced AI-powered token generation ecosystem. The protocol enables anyone to create, manage, and issue tokens with a few AI prompts. This approach eliminates technical roadblocks like coding and blockchain adoption. Similar to what Virtuals and Pump Fun have already accomplished. Pump AI Has Major Backers and Integrations Industry leaders support Pump AI. The protocol has

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Chainwire January 2, 2025
AI

Demand Forecasting with Darts: A Tutorial

A hands-on tutorial with Python and Darts for demand forecasting, showcasing the power of TiDE and TFT Sandra E.G. · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 16 min read · 8 hours ago — Photo by Victoriano Izquierdo on Unsplash Demand forecasting for retailing companies can become a complex task, as several factors need to be considered from the start of the project to the final deployment. This article provides an overview of the

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Sandra E.G. January 2, 2025

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