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Ouch! Watch the eye-watering moment a man is kicked in the GROIN by a robot mimicking his movements
Tim Walz responds to Minnesota fraud scandal after Kash Patel says new claims of stolen taxpayer money'just tip of the iceberg' Awkward moment Trump stuns reporters into silence after asking if they would consider free lunch at Mar-a-Lago a'bribe' American Airlines pilot's eye-watering paycheck goes viral: 'The reaction here is embarrassing' I'm a psychiatrist who almost never prescribes antidepressants. My drug-free treatment has a 70% success rate... Jennifer Garner shares hilariously relatable and unflattering photos for viral'felt pretty trend' My rape hell in Gaza: 'Sex slave' hostage feared she was pregnant after being raped while unconscious and describes how one attacker was'ecstatic' as she wept through 30-minute ordeal The final promise Brigitte Bardot made her estranged son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier before her death after admitting she'd rather'give birth to a dog' Minimum wage hikes hit millions from January 1 - here's who gets a raise and how much Female triathlete's corpse is found six days after she was killed in shark attack while swimming with her husband off California coast A Boy Scout vanished in the mountains then stumbled into a police station 12 years later. The tale gripped social media... but then the truth came out Inside the somber birthday of Rob Reiner's heartbroken daughter Romy: Pictured for first time since parents' murders... she seeks solace at the beach with boyfriend and family by her side How man's best friend saved his owner's life after pensioner collapsed on beach Missing Texas teenager in'imminent danger' as sheriff confirms she was NOT detained by ICE after vanishing while going for a walk on Christmas Eve Nicola Peltz unleashes SECOND'dig' at the Beckham family's'behaviour' hours after claiming she'loves being at home' in LA after husband Brooklyn missed Holly Ramsay's UK wedding Travis Kelce will play on... but NOT with the Kansas City Chiefs, claims NFL legend amid retirement talk DC pipe bomb suspect confesses to planting explosives after watching YouTube but says he'did not want to kill people' Ouch! Watch the eye-watering moment a man is kicked in the GROIN by a robot mimicking his movements A hilarious video has revealed the moment a man was kicked in the groin by a humanoid robot that was mimicking his own movements. The footage was initially shared to BiliBili by user zeonsunlight, but has since gone viral across social media. It shows a man wearing a motion capture suit - an outfit with sensors that record body movements and convert them into digital motion data.
Robohub highlights 2025
Over the course of the year, we've had the pleasure of working with many talented researchers from across the globe. As 2025 draws to a close, we take a look back at some of the excellent blog posts, interviews and podcasts from our contributors. Jiahui Zhang and Jesse Zhang to tell us about their framework for learning robot manipulation tasks solely from language instructions without per-task demonstrations. Hui Zhang writes about work presented at CoRL2025 on RobustDexGrasp, a novel framework that tackles different grasping challenges with targeted solutions. In this podcast from AAAI, host Ella Lan asked Professor Marynel Vázquez about what inspired her research direction, how her perspective on human-robot interactions has changed over time, robots navigating the social world, and more.
AIhub monthly digest: December 2025 – studying bias in AI-based recruitment tools, an image dataset for ethical AI benchmarking, and end of year compilations
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we look into bias in AI-based recruitment tools, find out about a new image dataset for ethical AI benchmarking, dig into human-robot interactions and social robotics, and look back on another busy year in the world of AI. We've been meeting some of the PhD students that were selected to take part in the Doctoral Consortium at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2025) . In the second interview of the series, we caught up with Frida Hartman to find out how her PhD is going so far, and plans for the next steps in her investigations. Frida, along with co-authors Mario Mirabile and Michele Dusi, was also the winner of the ECAI-2025 Diversity & Inclusion Competition, for work entitled .
A Unified Definition of Hallucination, Or: It's the World Model, Stupid
Liu, Emmy, Gangal, Varun, Zou, Chelsea, Huang, Xiaoqi, Yu, Michael, Chang, Alex, Tao, Zhuofu, Kumar, Sachin, Feng, Steven Y.
Despite numerous attempts to solve the issue of hallucination since the inception of neural language models, it remains a problem in even frontier large language models today. Why is this the case? We walk through definitions of hallucination used in the literature from a historical perspective up to the current day, and fold them into a single definition of hallucination, wherein different prior definitions focus on different aspects of our definition. At its core, we argue that hallucination is simply inaccurate (internal) world modeling, in a form where it is observable to the user (e.g., stating a fact which contradicts a knowledge base, or producing a summary which contradicts a known source). By varying the reference world model as well as the knowledge conflict policy (e.g., knowledge base vs. in-context), we arrive at the different existing definitions of hallucination present in the literature. We argue that this unified view is useful because it forces evaluations to make clear their assumed "world" or source of truth, clarifies what should and should not be called hallucination (as opposed to planning or reward/incentive-related errors), and provides a common language to compare benchmarks and mitigation techniques. Building on this definition, we outline plans for a family of benchmarks in which hallucinations are defined as mismatches with synthetic but fully specified world models in different environments, and sketch out how these benchmarks can use such settings to stress-test and improve the world modeling components of language models.
Injured veterans say Meta's AI-powered glasses are a 'gamechanger' for people with disabilities - as it allows them to send texts and get directions by just using their voice
Inside the somber birthday of Rob Reiner's heartbroken daughter Romy: Pictured for first time since parents' murders... she seeks solace at the beach with boyfriend and family by her side Donald Trump meets with Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago as president snaps at reporter: 'What a stupid question' SARAH VINE: The miasma of gloom has finally lifted over the royals. How sad Harry and Meghan can't see past their own psychodramas to allow their children to join this happy band Fast moving winter storm and possible'bomb cyclone' set to sweep across the country as 40 million Americans are placed on alert Redemption for Jake Paul's fiancee as Jutta Leerdam bounces back after heartbreaking fall at Olympic trials FBI gives update on daycare accused of $4MILLION taxpayer fraud as Kash Patel says it's the'tip of the iceberg' and vows to'follow the money and protect children' A Boy Scout vanished in the mountains then stumbled into a police station 12 years later. The tale gripped social media... but then the truth came out Shopping mall was once the jewel in Democrat-run city's crown in its 90s heyday but now it's a ghost town and up for sale Brigitte Bardot's final social media posts show her doing what she loved and looking remarkably healthy without the care she relied upon in her final years - just days before her death Nashville's brutal secret RANKING of influencers - revealed: From the'cougar' to the country music WAG with an ugly nickname... and the star whose marriage is facing WILD accusations Bryson DeChambeau gives stark update on his LIV Golf future after Brooks Koepka's shock exit I've been a mechanic for 50 years... here are the cars you should desperately avoid: 'Blowing up' I'm a psychiatrist who almost never prescribes antidepressants. My drug-free treatment has a 70% success rate... Injured veterans say Meta's AI-powered glasses are a'gamechanger' for people with disabilities - as it allows them to send texts and get directions by just using their voice The Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses and newer Oakley Vanguard glasses might look like a standard pair of chunky specs. But in reality, these cutting-edge wearables are a hands-free device that lets users seamlessly interact with AI controls.
Revealed: What Brits searched for most on Google in 2025
Inside the somber birthday of Rob Reiner's heartbroken daughter Romy: Pictured for first time since parents' murders... she seeks solace at the beach with boyfriend and family by her side Donald Trump meets with Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago as president snaps at reporter: 'What a stupid question' SARAH VINE: The miasma of gloom has finally lifted over the royals. How sad Harry and Meghan can't see past their own psychodramas to allow their children to join this happy band Fast moving winter storm and possible'bomb cyclone' set to sweep across the country as 40 million Americans are placed on alert Redemption for Jake Paul's fiancee as Jutta Leerdam bounces back after heartbreaking fall at Olympic trials FBI gives update on daycare accused of $4MILLION taxpayer fraud as Kash Patel says it's the'tip of the iceberg' and vows to'follow the money and protect children' A Boy Scout vanished in the mountains then stumbled into a police station 12 years later. The tale gripped social media... but then the truth came out Shopping mall was once the jewel in Democrat-run city's crown in its 90s heyday but now it's a ghost town and up for sale Brigitte Bardot's final social media posts show her doing what she loved and looking remarkably healthy without the care she relied upon in her final years - just days before her death Nashville's brutal secret RANKING of influencers - revealed: From the'cougar' to the country music WAG with an ugly nickname... and the star whose marriage is facing WILD accusations Melanie Watson dead at 57: Diff'rent Strokes star dies after suffering severe health complications in hospital Bryson DeChambeau gives stark update on his LIV Golf future after Brooks Koepka's shock exit I've been a mechanic for 50 years... here are the cars you should desperately avoid: 'Blowing up' Charlie Kirk was the top trending search term Google in the UK in 2025, according to an annual list compiled by the search engine. The Turning Point USA founder, 31, who was gunned down at a speaking event at a Utah college campus, was also the most read article globally on Wikipedia. Following Kirk, the second most searched subject was Ozzy Osbourne .
Google reveals most popular trends of 2025 in website's 'Year in Search'
Inside the somber birthday of Rob Reiner's heartbroken daughter Romy: Pictured for first time since parents' murders... she seeks solace at the beach with boyfriend and family by her side Donald Trump meets with Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago as president snaps at reporter: 'What a stupid question' SARAH VINE: The miasma of gloom has finally lifted over the royals. How sad Harry and Meghan can't see past their own psychodramas to allow their children to join this happy band Fast moving winter storm and possible'bomb cyclone' set to sweep across the country as 40 million Americans are placed on alert Redemption for Jake Paul's fiancee as Jutta Leerdam bounces back after heartbreaking fall at Olympic trials FBI gives update on daycare accused of $4MILLION taxpayer fraud as Kash Patel says it's the'tip of the iceberg' and vows to'follow the money and protect children' A Boy Scout vanished in the mountains then stumbled into a police station 12 years later. The tale gripped social media... but then the truth came out Shopping mall was once the jewel in Democrat-run city's crown in its 90s heyday but now it's a ghost town and up for sale Brigitte Bardot's final social media posts show her doing what she loved and looking remarkably healthy without the care she relied upon in her final years - just days before her death Nashville's brutal secret RANKING of influencers - revealed: From the'cougar' to the country music WAG with an ugly nickname... and the star whose marriage is facing WILD accusations Melanie Watson dead at 57: Diff'rent Strokes star dies after suffering severe health complications in hospital Bryson DeChambeau gives stark update on his LIV Golf future after Brooks Koepka's shock exit I've been a mechanic for 50 years... here are the cars you should desperately avoid: 'Blowing up' Google reveals most popular trends of 2025 in website's'Year in Search' Sign up for our US Editor's Picks newsletter to get all the best exclusive stories Google has revealed that Charlie Kirk was the top trending US search of 2025 following the conservative influencer's assassination in September. The search engine platform shared its top US searches in its Year in Search on Sunday, an annual report and recap of the platform's most popular searches that users most wanted to know about throughout the year. Following Kirk in the top searches list was KPop Demon Hunters.
'Memory manipulation is inevitable': How rewriting memory in the lab might one day heal humans
Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. 'Memory manipulation is inevitable': How rewriting memory in the lab might one day heal humans Professor and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez, shown working with brain samples, is exploring the science of memory manipulation. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . Scientists have found that memories are not static records but dynamic processes that change the brain's wiring each time they are recalled.
What Kind of New World Is Being Born?
What Kind of New World Is Being Born? According to the Gospel of Luke, the Virgin Mary first learns that she'll soon give birth to Christ when she gets an unsolicited visit from an angel. Nice messenger service if you can get it. But before trusty Gabriel can dispense the good news upon which Christmas depends he has to calm the girl down. "Fear not," he says, and, in a way, this sombre reassurance is the Yuletide message in drastic miniature.