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Watch: Korean Humanoid Robot Performs Viral K-POP Dance, Learns By Watching Videos Authored by Jijo Malayil via Interesting Engineering, While China dominates humanoid robotics headlines, a Korean firm showcased a humanoid learning complex motions through an open-source AI framework. AI Sapiens enables a complete pipeline for imitation learning, covering data collection, training, and inference. ROBOTIS/YouTube In a recent demonstration, ROBOTIS' AI Sapiens learned the famous CORTIS REDRED Challenge motion using only smartphone video, eliminating the need for professional motion-capture systems. The process combined video-based motion capture, motion retargeting, simulation-based reinforcement learning, and Sim2Real transfer. According to...

Legendary Swiss Bank "Thinks The Unthinkable"; Report Swiss banking giant UBS is considering abandoning its home country and relocating to the United States as a bitter battle over government regulations threatens to upend one of the world's most powerful financial institutions. The Zurich-based banking powerhouse and its advisers have drawn up contingency plans to move its headquarters abroad if Swiss lawmakers impose sweeping new capital requirements, according to The Wall Street Journal. The bank has also received approaches from potential American deal partners, although no negotiations are underway and no formal steps...

Meta To Lay Off Hundreds Of Workers Today As AI Pivot Accelerates Meta Platforms is laying off a few hundred employees today as its workforce restructuring continues, following years of terrible metaverse bets and overhiring during the Covid era. Reports of another round of layoffs surfaced earlier this month, and just last week, Meta shut down Horizon Worlds, its virtual reality social network for Quest headsets. The Information reports that a few hundred employees will be let go today as part of the company's effort to reposition itself in the AI...