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Nexus NX1: Neue Ganzkörpersteuerung für humanoide Roboter und Virtual Reality
Handschuhe, Laufband, Schuhe und VR-Brille: Mit dem Komplettpaket "Nexus NX1" sollen Avatare in Virtual Reality und humanoide Roboter gesteuert werden können.

GLAMs and humanities folk deserve better AI models, number 5654 in a series: 'the subjectivity of a task or instance negatively affects the performance of a model – an observation that is particularly worrying for humanities research'.
From Kaspar Beelen's report, Small Language Models for libraries and computational humanities

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Sky Cries Mary:
🎵 Ocean Which Humanity Is
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https://skycriesmary.bandcamp.com/track/ocean-which-humanity-is
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Corporate algorithms and chatbots are taking over the internet, and it’s very bad.
Wikipedia, on the other hand, is a nonprofit made by and for human users who believe in sharing free, organized, accessible, quality information for the good of humanity.
Let’s not take that for granted.
-- Doug Lindner
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Doug Lindner (@douglindner.bsky.social)
Corporate algorithms and chatbots are taking over the internet, and it’s very bad. Wikipedia, on the other hand, is a nonprofit made by and for human users who believe in sharing free, organized, accessible, quality information for the good of humanity. Let’s not take that for granted. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Documents: Rhoda AI, which raised a $162.6M Series A in April, and Genesis AI, which raised a $105M seed earlier this year, have been developing humanoid robots (Anna Tong/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2025

Startups Rhoda AI And Genesis AI Are Building Humanoid Robots In Stealth
Flush with hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding, Rhoda AI and Genesis AI are developing humanoids they hope can go head-to-head with robots from Figure AI and Tesla.

TextMine: LLM-Powered Knowledge Extraction for Humanitarian Mine Action
Chenyue Zhou, G\"urkan Solmaz, Flavio Cirillo, Kiril Gashteovski, Jonathan F\"urst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15098

TextMine: LLM-Powered Knowledge Extraction for Humanitarian Mine Action
Humanitarian Mine Action has generated extensive best-practice knowledge, but much remains locked in unstructured reports. We introduce TextMine, an ontology-guided pipeline that uses Large Language Models to extract knowledge triples from HMA texts. TextMine integrates document chunking, domain-aware prompting, triple extraction, and both reference-based and LLM-as-a-Judge evaluation. We also create the first HMA ontology and a curated dataset of real-world demining reports. Experiments show o…

CAD-Driven Co-Design for Flight-Ready Jet-Powered Humanoids
Punith Reddy Vanteddu, Davide Gorbani, Giuseppe L'Erario, Hosameldin Awadalla Omer Mohamed, Fabio Bergonti, Daniele Pucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14935

CAD-Driven Co-Design for Flight-Ready Jet-Powered Humanoids
This paper presents a CAD-driven co-design framework for optimizing jet-powered aerial humanoid robots to execute dynamically constrained trajectories. Starting from the iRonCub-Mk3 model, a Design of Experiments (DoE) approach is used to generate 5,000 geometrically varied and mechanically feasible designs by modifying limb dimensions, jet interface geometry (e.g., angle and offset), and overall mass distribution. Each model is constructed through CAD assemblies to ensure structural validity a…

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/14/dismal-health-of-worlds-forests-is-threat-to-humanity-report-warns

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations @adho-org.bsky.social has a number of positions open - help out with ADHO Awards, Communications or with a Fellowship aimed at improving the website
https://adho.org/jobs/
It's a great way to help the field and support your local DH organisatio…

Google says Gemini 3 Pro scores 1,501 on LMArena, above 2.5 Pro, and demonstrates PhD-level reasoning with top scores on Humanity's Last Exam and GPQA Diamond (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/18/gemini-3-launch/

Google launches Gemini 3 with state-of-the-art reasoning, ‘generative UI’ for responses, more
Google today announced Gemini 3 with the goal of bringing “any idea to life.” The first model available in this family is Gemini 3 Pro...