I let Claude audit my messy Home Assistant setup, and it was a massive wake-up call

I gave Claude access to my Home Assistant. It helped me audit, debug, and improve my smart home better than I ever could have.
Interesting Engineering

MIT’s ultrasound wristband could teach humanoid robots human hand skills

Humanoid robots may soon gain more human-like dexterity thanks to a new wearable device developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The ultrasound wristband uses ...
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Venomous snake eats a python | Hand-feeding the world's deadliest snakes

Venomous snake eats a python | Hand-feeding the world's deadliest snakes Plane crashes into Beijing’s tallest skyscraper Millions of Americans drop Obamacare plans after withdrawal of subsidies Did ...
The Next Web

MIT’s ultrasound wristband tracks every finger movement and lets you control a robot hand in real time

MIT built an ultrasound wristband that tracks 22 degrees of hand motion and controls a robot hand in real time with 120ms latency. Engineers at MIT have built an ultrasound wristband that can track 22 ...
KXAN

MIT researchers channel AI to turn hand gestures into robot training data

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Humanoid robots struggling with tasks like grasping a cup have a new teacher — a person wearing an ultrasound wristband that captures the movement of muscles, tendons and ...
Click2Houston

MIT researchers channel AI to turn hand gestures into robot training data

Read full article: 'Almost like quicksand': Porretto Beach closes for first time in 70-year history amid city drainage dispute A major crash shut down all eastbound lanes of I-10 at mile marker 831 in ...
Ars Technica

Slate says its electric pickup will never track you

I seriously wonder how many of the hand crank people have ever actually lived with a car that had hand crank windows. As someone who grew up with hand crank windows on an assortment of '60s Pontiacs, ...
GitHub

ConTrack: Constrained Hand Motion Tracking with Adaptive Trade-off Control

This release has been tested on Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, NVIDIA driver 550.144.03, Python 3.11, Isaac Sim 5.1.0, and Isaac Lab commit ...
Autoblog

Bodycam Footage Shows Florida Cop Ticketing Woman For Using A Hand She Doesn’t Have

View post: Tesla Model Y L Is Now America’s Priciest Model Y—Offers More Than Just Captain’s Seats Woman ticketed for phone use, despite having no right hand, in Florida traffic stop. Bodycam footage ...
The New York Times

Woman With No Right Hand Pulled Over for Using Phone in Her Right Hand

new video loaded: Woman With No Right Hand Pulled Over for Using Phone in Her Right Hand transcript A sheriff’s deputy in Florida pulled a woman over for holding a phone in her right hand, which ...
KGW8

'Hand to God?' | Florida deputy doubles down on phone ticket after woman shows she has no hand

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — A traffic stop in Florida is going viral after a deputy accuses a woman of using her phone while driving and then doubles down when she shows she doesn't have a hand. The ...