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The dust at this busy recycling plant is pervasive and the steady noise of hoppers and conveyor belts makes this a challenging environment to work in. The facility in Rainham, east London is owned by Sharp Group, a family-run skip and waste management firm. Along the conveyor belts runs everything you could imagine, from shoes, to old VHS cassettes and blocks of concrete. The team here processes up to 280,000 tonnes of mixed recycling every year with 24 agency workers on its rapid conveyor belts. This is a hazardous industry.

The weather is warming up and we're all dreaming about days lounging by the pool. For some, however, the thought of having to keep cleaning out the pool turns this dream into a nightmare. Enter the Aiper Scuba X1 Pro Max, a robotic pool cleaner that can take this chore off your hands without even breaking a sweat. The new Scuba X1 Pro Max is the most advanced and user-friendly robotic pool cleaner you can get your hands on, and it will ensure your pool water remains crystal clear throughout the swimming season. The Aiper robotic cleaner can navigate your pool on its own, map out the area, and deploy 8,500 GPH suction to ensure everything is clean.

Spring is here, and the weather is warming up, giving us hope that we'll be lounging by the pool in no time. Well, the best way to prepare for the upcoming summer is to get an automated pool cleaner to take over the least pleasant job. The new Aiper Scuba X1 Pro Max promises to deliver everything you could ever ask from such a device. Aiper's new Scuba X1 Pro Max is the most advanced cordless robotic pool cleaner you can get right now. Even better, it's also incredibly user-friendly, so you won't have any issues figuring out how to set it up.

The 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning pickup has been revealed with a starting price under $40G. The all-electric truck is the most powerful F-150 ever and offers a range up to 300 miles per charge. April 26 marked the official start of production for the electric Ford F-150 Lighting and yet another milestone … in the rise of the robots. The F-150 Lightning is built at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center. The F-150 Lightning is built with a unique assembly system in Ford's Rouge Electric Vehicle Factory in Dearborn where humans and robots really do work side by side.

This paper introduces the unsupervised learning problem of playable video generation (PVG). In PVG, we aim at allowing a user to control the generated video by selecting a discrete action at every time step as when playing a video game. The difficulty of the task lies both in learning semantically consistent actions and in generating realistic videos conditioned on the user input. We propose a novel framework for PVG that is trained in a self-supervised manner on a large dataset of unlabelled videos. We employ an encoder-decoder architecture where the predicted action labels act as bottleneck. The network is constrained to learn a rich action space using, as main driving loss, a reconstruction loss on the generated video. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach on several datasets with wide environment variety. Further details, code and examples are available on our project page willi-menapace.github.io/playable-video-generation-website.

When you decide to write a story set in the near future, or speculating about things that might happen, you're running the risk of looking like a jackass. Nobody expects a science fiction story to predict the actual future--not if they know anything about science fiction, anyway. But given how slowly publishing can move and how fast the world changes, your story can look outdated before it even sees print. I ran into this a bunch of times with my novel All the Birds in the Sky. Because this novel took so long to write, and then had another two years between getting a book deal and actually getting published, there was tons of stuff in there that I had a queasy feeling would be just completely wrong by the time this book saw the light of day.