A compact electric quadricycle is designed to tackle the challenges of city living while offering accessible and eco-friendly transportation. Electric vehicles often grab headlines for innovation, but they rarely get credit for affordability. That's where Chinese automaker BYD is flipping the script. The company introduced the Atto 1 at the Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show, and it's turning heads for all the right reasons. Priced at around 12,000, this fully electric hatchback offers modern features, urban-ready performance, and a price tag that could finally bring EVs to the masses.

Nvidia CEO and co-founder Jensen Huang commends President Donald Trump's AI agenda and outlines what the country's job future will look like on'Special Report.' Walking up to your car and seeing it recognize you, light up with a digital smile and respond to your voice used to be something only seen in TV shows and movies. Now, LA-based Faraday Future is making that experience a reality. At its California headquarters, the company recently unveiled the FX Super One, a tech-packed electric vehicle featuring the F.A.C.E., short for Front AI Communication Ecosystem. This expressive LED grille gives the car personality, allowing it to connect through light, sound and even emotional cues.

Automaker Zeekr and autonomous driving technology company Waymo have joined forces to create a groundbreaking autonomous vehicle designed specifically for ride-hailing services. The result of this collaboration is the Zeekr RT, the world's first mass-produced, purpose-built autonomous vehicle, which is now ready for delivery to Waymo for robotaxi testing. This partnership combines Zeekr's expertise in electric vehicle manufacturing with Waymo's advanced self-driving technology. GET SECURITY ALERTS & EXPERT TECH TIPS -- SIGN UP FOR KURT'S THE CYBERGUY REPORT NOW The Zeekr RT is equipped with an impressive array of 13 cameras, four lidar units, six radar sensors and external audio receivers, ensuring a 360-degree view of its surroundings. To maintain optimal performance in various weather conditions, the Zeekr RT features a specially designed system to keep its sensors clean.

The CyberGuy highlights features to consider. This holiday season, consider giving the gift of home security to your loved ones. There are many different technological devices that can be purchased for home protection, but one of the most popular and widely used is security cameras. Security cameras can be placed in different areas on the interior and exterior of a home, providing 24-hour indoor and outdoor surveillance. Security cameras keep an eye on properties whether you are home or away.

Choosing the best portable speaker can be a daunting task with the amount of options available today. Whether you're gearing up for a camping trip, a beach outing, or a backyard barbecue, finding the right speaker that delivers on sound quality, durability, and portability is crucial. We've tested dozens of Bluetooth speakers across various price points to help you navigate this crowded market. While many of them sound impressive, comparing them head-to-head allowed us to identify the features that make certain portable wireless speakers stand out. If you're looking primarily for a speaker that works with a voice assistant like Alexa, Google Assistant or Siri, check out our top picks for the best smart speakers. However, for those seeking a versatile portable Bluetooth speaker, we've put together a selection of top performers that cater to a wide range of use cases and preferences. Whether you're after powerful bass, long battery life or rugged design, our recommendations will help you find the best match for your needs. If you're just looking for a small Bluetooth speaker that can kick out some decent volume, the Tribit StormBox Micro 2 fits the bill. The audio quality here is fine; it doesn't stand out in terms of fidelity, but the volume you get from this affordable little speaker is what makes it a good choice. The rubbery rear strap works well on relatively thin things like belts, backpacks and bike handlebars. While it's small and affordable, this mini speaker features a USB-C charging port for your devices in a pinch and you can wirelessly connect two of them for party mode or stereo sound.

Urban Building Exteriors are increasingly important in urban analytics, driven by advancements in Street View Imagery and its integration with urban research. Multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) offer powerful tools for urban annotation, enabling deeper insights into urban environments. However, challenges remain in creating accurate and detailed urban building exterior databases, identifying critical indicators for energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, and human-centric design, and systematically organizing these indicators. To address these challenges, we propose BuildingView, a novel approach that integrates high-resolution visual data from Google Street View with spatial information from OpenStreetMap via the Overpass API. This research improves the accuracy of urban building exterior data, identifies key sustainability and design indicators, and develops a framework for their extraction and categorization. Our methodology includes a systematic literature review, building and Street View sampling, and annotation using the ChatGPT-4O API. The resulting database, validated with data from New York City, Amsterdam, and Singapore, provides a comprehensive tool for urban studies, supporting informed decision-making in urban planning, architectural design, and environmental policy. The code for BuildingView is available at https://github.com/Jasper0122/BuildingView.

Abstract-- This work presents a method of incorporating lowcost capacitive tactile sensors on a soft socially assistive robot platform. By embedding conductive thread into the robot's crocheted exterior, we formed a set of low-cost, flexible capacitive tactile sensors that do not disrupt the robot's soft, zoomorphic embodiment. We evaluated the sensors' performance through a user study (N=20) and found that the sensors reliably detected user touch events and localized touch inputs to one of three regions on the robot's exterior. Touch plays an important role in human-human and human-animal social interactions, but it is not often utilized in social interactions between humans and robots. Most Flexibility and Cohesiveness Sensors should be easy to reconfigure commercially available platforms for robotics research do for different interaction contexts without disrupting not incorporate tactile sensing, and those that do cannot Blossom's soft, handcrafted embodiment. In this work, we propose and A. Physical Device Design evaluate a method of incorporating low-cost capacitive tactile We embedded conductive thread into the crocheted exterior sensors onto the Blossom open-source soft robot platform [1] to enable Blossom to detect touch from the user.

Whether it's a grand stately home or a futuristic apartment, we all have different ideas of what we think the'perfect home' looks like. Now, AI tool, Midjourney, has revealed what it envisions the perfect home looks like in 20 UK cities. 'The AI-generated representations of houses across the country are captivating,' said Kunle Barker, property expert and content creator for Grand Designs Live. 'They skilfully encapsulate the architectural heritage of various regions, the current state of homes, and, most importantly, envision their future possibilities.' Barbie fans rejoice - the perfect home in London is pastel pink, according to Midjourney. It's known for its industrial history, and that's certainly reflected in Manchester's perfect home. Barbie fans rejoice - the perfect home in London is pastel pink, according to Midjourney.

As artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in our society and global economy, AI education and literacy have become necessary components in college and K-12 education to prepare students for an AI-powered society. However, current AI curricula have not yet been made accessible and engaging enough for students and schools from all socio-economic backgrounds with different educational goals. In this work, we developed an open-source learning module for college and high school students, which allows students to build their own robot companion from the ground up. This open platform can be used to provide hands-on experience and introductory knowledge about various aspects of AI, including robotics, machine learning (ML), software engineering, and mechanical engineering. Because of the social and personal nature of a socially assistive robot companion, this module also puts a special emphasis on human-centered AI, enabling students to develop a better understanding of human-AI interaction and AI ethics through hands-on learning activities. With open-source documentation, assembling manuals and affordable materials, students from different socio-economic backgrounds can personalize their learning experience based on their individual educational goals. To evaluate the student-perceived quality of our module, we conducted a usability testing workshop with 15 college students recruited from a minority-serving institution. Our results indicate that our AI module is effective, easy-to-follow, and engaging, and it increases student interest in studying AI/ML and robotics in the future. We hope that this work will contribute toward accessible and engaging AI education in human-AI interaction for college and high school students.

Stellantis is the world's fifth largest automaker with a stable of more than a dozen North American and European brands including Jeep, Ram, Dodge, Maserati and Fiat. The company has set extremely ambitious goals to drastically reduce its carbon footprint by the end of the decade, as part of Dare Forward 2030, with 100 percent of its European sales and half of its US sales to be of the fully-electric variety. As part of that effort, Stellantis has already teased us with an EV concept from Chrysler, came right out and showed us next year's electric Jeep and, on Thursday, unveiled the Ram 1500 Revolution BEV Concept. The Ram 1500 BEV will be available in the 2024 model year alongside the as-of-yet-unnamed Jeep (with which it also shares a STLA EV frame). The Concept shown off Thursday will serve as a design template for the upcoming production vehicle.