Hugging Face has unveiled Reachy Mini, a desktop robot that feels like a bold step toward making robotics accessible to everyone. This open-source marvel is designed for AI developers, educators, hobbyists, and even curious kids.
Out of the blue, a band called The Velvet Sundown exploded onto Spotify, racking up close to a million monthly listeners in just a few weeks. Their tunes are being described as a trippy, psychedelic rock. But here’s the kicker: behind those guitar licks and mysterious vocals, there’s a big conundrum—no one’s quite sure if this band is actually real.
Hunting for an audio version of that rare book from your local bookstore can feel like chasing a shadow. Meet PageParrot, a brilliant DIY creation by Nick Bild that turns any physical book into an audiobook in seconds.
In Beijing’s Yizhuang Development Zone, four teams of humanoid robots duked it out in the world’s first fully autonomous 3-on-3 soccer (football) showdown, hosted by the ROBO League. Tsinghua University’s THU Robotics squad stole the show, outscoring China Agricultural University’s Mountain Sea team 5-3 in a final that was nothing short of a tech breakthrough.
Google’s Veo 3 is changing the game for AI-made videos, and The Sentence, a gripping short film, shows just how far this tech can go. Thrown together in just three days, it pulls you into a dark, dystopian world where a chilling new kind of punishment unfolds, all crafted with a handful of AI tools that make the impossible feel real.
Google Labs’ Doppl is a new AI-powered app that lets you virtually try on outfits from nearly any source. Available now on iOS and Android in the U.S., this standalone mobile tool builds on Google’s earlier virtual try-on features, but it can turn static images into animated previews of you strutting in your chosen threads.
Midjourney, the San Francisco crew famous for their artsy AI image tools, just stepped into video with the V1 Video Model. This image-to-video setup turns still pics into short, dreamy clips, throwing them into the ring with big names like Google’s Veo 3, OpenAI’s Sora, and Kling AI.
Google’s search engine has been our go-to for years when we need quick answers. But now, they’re shaking things up with Search Live, a fresh feature tucked into AI Mode that turns the search bar into a chatty sidekick you can talk to. Basically, it lets you fire off voice commands to Google’s AI chatbot like it’s no big deal.