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Andrew Bosworth says humanoid robots, internally called "Metabot", are Meta's next "AR size bet" and envisions licensing software to other robot makers (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/786759/humanoid-robots-meta

Humanoid robots are Meta’s next ‘AR-size bet’
During a recent trip to Meta HQ, I took the opportunity to ask CTO Andrew Bosworth about its new robotics effort.

From humanitarian convoys to the Ukrainian front: the story of two brothers from the United States: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/from-humanitarian-convoys-to-the.html

Rekordverdächtig: Humanoider Roboter Robotera L7 läuft 14,4 km/h schnell
Der humanoide Roboter Robotera L7 kann schnell laufen und ist für den Einsatz in der Industrie gedacht. Dabei hilft ihm seine Ganzkörperintelligenz.

Die kommen auf Ideen die Chinesen ... https://www.golem.de/news/hoehenwindkraft-schwebendes-windrad-im-megawattbereich-vorgestellt-2509-200451.html

Höhenwindkraft: Schwebendes Windrad im Megawattbereich vorgestellt - Golem.de
Höhenwind gilt als durchgehend verfügbar und weist hohe Geschwindigkeiten auf. Seine Nutzung soll mit einem neuartigen Windrad gelingen.

Hunyuan3D-Omni: A Unified Framework for Controllable Generation of 3D Assets
Team Hunyuan3D, :, Bowen Zhang, Chunchao Guo, Haolin Liu, Hongyu Yan, Huiwen Shi, Jingwei Huang, Junlin Yu, Kunhong Li, Linus, Penghao Wang, Qingxiang Lin, Sicong Liu, Xianghui Yang, Yixuan Tang, Yunfei Zhao, Zeqiang Lai, Zhihao Liang, Zibo Zhao
https://arxiv.or…

Hunyuan3D-Omni: A Unified Framework for Controllable Generation of 3D Assets
Recent advances in 3D-native generative models have accelerated asset creation for games, film, and design. However, most methods still rely primarily on image or text conditioning and lack fine-grained, cross-modal controls, which limits controllability and practical adoption. To address this gap, we present Hunyuan3D-Omni, a unified framework for fine-grained, controllable 3D asset generation built on Hunyuan3D 2.1. In addition to images, Hunyuan3D-Omni accepts point clouds, voxels, bounding …

Sign The Petition to free Joseph Figueira Martin
On 26 May 2024, Joseph Figueira Martin, a Belgian-Portuguese humanitarian, was arrested in Zémio, a town in the east of the Central African Republic.
Portugal and Belgium must act! …

Sign the Petition: Free Joseph Figueira Martin! Humanitarian arbitrarily detained and tortured in the Central African Republic
Sign the petition to protect those who risk their lives to save others.

Really nice interview:
https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/building-beyond-the-browser-keeley-hammond-on-electron-open-source-and-the-future-of-maintainership/
I chose Ele…

Building beyond the browser: Keeley Hammond on Electron, open source, and the future of maintainership
Learn what it really takes to sustain one of the web’s most widely used frameworks on this episode of the GitHub Podcast.

Sources: the number of Optimus humanoid robots Tesla has made this year is in the hundreds, well behind the pace needed to meet Musk's goal of producing 5K (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-teslas-secretive-optimus-rob…

Inside Tesla’s Secretive Optimus Robot Program
Elon Musk says humanoid robots will be the future of Tesla. The company has a long way to go. Tesla is well behind the pace necessary to meet Musk’s publicly stated goal of producing at least 5,000 of its Optimus humanoid robots this year, according to two people with knowledge of the program. ...

Assine a Petição para libertar Joseph Figueira Martin
Em 26 de maio de 2024, Joseph Figueira Martin, um humanitšrio belga-português, foi preso em Zémio, uma cidade no leste da República Centro-Africana.
Bélgica e Portugal têm que tomar ação!
#Wagner

Sign the Petition: Free Joseph Figueira Martin! Humanitarian arbitrarily detained and tortured in the Central African Republic
Sign the petition to protect those who risk their lives to save others.

Q&A with General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja on the VC firm's "AI roll-up" strategy to buy service businesses and inject them with AI, investment bubbles, and more (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/2757870b-dbbf-4603-9fc3-7ccd03ffc…