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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...

UK High Court Backs Facial Recognition Rollout Authored by Kit Knightly via OffGuardian.org, Yesterday evening, the UK’s High Court ruled in favour of the Metropolitan Police in a legal challenge pertaining to the use of Live Facial Recognition Technology (LFR) across London’s transport network. The case had been brought by Silkie Carlo of Big Brother Watch and Shaun Thompson, a youth worker who was previously misidentified by the technology, “over concerns it could be used arbitrarily or in a discriminatory way”. Specifically, their lawyers argued that the current powers claimed by police governing the...

New Arizona Law Targets Demand Behind Prostitution, Sex Trafficking Authored by Allan Stein via The Epoch Times, Arizona has enacted a law that increases penalties for people who buy or attempt to buy sex, and directs new funding to services for victims of sex trafficking. Under the law, paying, agreeing to pay, or offering to pay for sexual conduct is now a felony offense and carries mandatory jail time. Offenders must also pay a $200 assessment, with all proceeds dedicated to programs that assist trafficking survivors. A first offense can result in up...