February 26, 2025

Robotics

LIPS and ADLINK deliver 275 TOPS at the edge for advanced AMR perception – The Robot Report

LIPSAMR Perception DevKit is a mobile robot reference design works with LIPS cameras and is based on the NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor workflow. | Credit: LIPS Corp. ADLINK Technology Inc. today announced its edge computing platform for artificial intelligence is now fully compatible with the perception development kit developed by LIPS Corp. and based on NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor. The company said it has integrated them with the LIPSedge AE Active Stereo 3D camera series for developers of

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Cables Finance At Consensus Hong Kong: Big Ideas, Bigger Opportunities | HackerNoon

Last week, the Cables team landed in Hong Kong for Consensus 2025, and the energy was unreal. The main event was packed—a perfect mix of DeFi-native projects, institutional crypto players, and builders pushing the space forward. From panels to private discussions, the biggest takeaway was clear: crypto is maturing, and the appetite for real financial infrastructure has never been stronger. Midweek, Co-Founder Matt Miller took the stage to break down the core problems Cables is

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Robotics

Neya Systems designs N-Drive for off-road autonomy

Neya develops autonomy systems for mining, construction, and military deployments. | Source: Neya Systems Neya Systems launched its N-Drive full-stack autonomy solution for unconstrained environments. The Warrendale, Penn.-based company said it has tested N-Drive in “nearly every terrain on Earth” using simulation. It is designed for a variety of use cases such as teleoperation, GPS-denied environments and more. Neya said that N-Drive can analyze complex environments, adapt to dynamic conditions, and make decisions in real

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Robotics

A springtail-like jumping robot

Springtails, smallbugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists in theHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes the boundaries of what small robots can do. Published in Science Robotics, the research glimpses a future where nimble microrobots can crawl through tiny spaces, skitter across dangerous ground, and sense their environments without human

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Robotics

New low-cost challenger to quantum computer: Ising machine

A low-energy challenger to the quantum computer that also works at room temperature may be the result of research at the University of Gothenburg. The researchers have shown that information can be transmitted using magnetic wave motion in complex networks. Spintronics explores magnetic phenomena in nano-thin layers of magnetic materials that are exposed to magnetic fields, electric currents and voltages. These external stimuli can also create spin waves, ripples in a material’s magnetisation that travel

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What Separates Winning Fintech Pitches from the Rest? | HackerNoon

Raising money in general is difficult. Fintech is one of the most competitive spaces out there. Every year, individual investors hear hundreds of pitches, and most go nowhere—less than one percent of startups get venture capital funding. If your pitch doesn’t grab the attention of the investors in the first 60 seconds, you are out. Most founders think that their idea alone is going to check them. Some nailed it. Most didn’t. The difference? Successful

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Inception emerges from stealth with a new type of AI model | TechCrunch

Inception, a new Palo Alto-based company started by Stanford computer science professor Stefano Ermon, claims to have developed a novel AI model based on “diffusion” technology. Inception calls it a diffusion-based large language model, or a “DLM” for short. The generative AI models receiving the most attention now can be broadly divided into two types: large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models. LLMs, built on the transformer architecture, are used for text generation. Meanwhile, diffusion

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Hardware

Handheld PC market to hit nearly 8 million by 2025, segment growth is ‘amazing’ AMD’s Azor says

TL;DR: The handheld PC market is projected to reach nearly 8 million shipments by the end of the year, driven by the success of devices like the Steam Deck. The handheld PC market could hit cumulative shipments of nearly 8 million by the end of the year, analyst firm IDC predicts. VIEW GALLERY – 4 IMAGES The nascent handheld gaming PC segment has grown considerably over the years; led technically by the Switch’s mega success,

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How Gradient Ventures is shaping the AI startup landscape with Eylul Kayin

“AI startups are like rockets — they need to launch fast, but they also need to be built to last,” says Gradient Ventures partner Eylul Kayin, who works on everything from seed-stage investments to helping companies scale. Today on Equity, Mary Ann Azevedo sits down with Eylul to explore the fast-evolving world of artificial intelligence startups. The pair dig into what makes a successful AI startup, the importance of quality product offerings, and the fast-moving

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AI

LLaDA: The Diffusion Model That Could Redefine Language Generation | Towards Data Science

Introduction What if we could make language models think more like humans? Instead of writing one word at a time, what if they could sketch out their thoughts first, and gradually refine them? This is exactly what Large Language Diffusion Models (LLaDA) introduces: a different approach to current text generation used in Large Language Models (LLMs). Unlike traditional autoregressive models (ARMs), which predict text sequentially, left to right, LLaDA leverages a diffusion-like process to generate text. Instead of

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