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In Pirates of the Caribbean, Jack and Will use an overturned dinghy to hold air underwater. Madness or brilliance?

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Abstract: This paper presents a novel way for Robot-Robot-Human interaction in a shared workspace for collaborative tasks and uses a multi-modal means of communication that includes hand gestures, ...

ActiveVLN is a Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) framework designed to enable active exploration through multi-turn reinforcement learning. Unlike traditional VLN methods, which rely on imitation ...

Abstract: This letter presents the details of designing a spherical tensegrity robot with reduced active tendons to perform decoupled center of mass movement and vertical jumping. The constrained ...

Posha uses AI and a motorized arm to cook your dinner autonomously. It’s impressive but expensive, and raises all the usual concerns about connected kitchen appliances. As I’m sitting in my office ...

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