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'World's most advanced' humanoid robot says she'll have working legs in less than a year
With her eerily realistic facial expressions and movements, Ameca has been billed as the world's most advanced humanoid robot. But if that wasn't impressive enough, soon she could be walking around too. That's because the robot - which has been designed by British company Engineered Arts - has revealed that engineers are working on'prototype legs' which should be ready within the next year. During a Q&A on YouTube, Ameca said: 'I can't walk, but I have seen prototype legs in the Engineered Arts lab. 'The design of my legs is inspired by the robot Byrun, developed by Engineered Arts Ltd.
Businesses including Stitch Fix are already experimenting with DALL-E 2 – TechCrunch
It's been just a few weeks since OpenAI began allowing customers to commercially use images created by DALL-E 2, its remarkably powerful AI text-to-image system. But in spite of the current technical limitations and lack of volume licensing, not to mention API, some pioneers say they're already testing the system for various business use cases -- awaiting the day when DALL-E 2 becomes stable enough to deploy into production. Stitch Fix, the online service that uses recommendation algorithms to personalize apparel, says it has experimented with DALL-2 to visualize its products based on specific characteristics like color, fabric and style. For example, if a Stitch Fix customer asked for a "high-rise, red, stretchy, skinny jean" during the pilot, DALL-E 2 was tapped to generate images of that item, which a stylist could use to match with a similar product in Stitch Fix's inventory. "DALL-E 2 helps us surface the most informative characteristics of a product in a visual way, ultimately helping stylists find the perfect item that matches what a client has requested in their written feedback," a spokesperson told TechCrunch via email.
Heinz asked AI to 'draw ketchup' (and it went remarkably well)
Heinz has proved that even computers prefer its ketchup with a marketing stunt that had OpenAI's Dall-E 2 generator create a series of sauce-inspired images. Apparently, when the team fed the software random ketchup-related phrases, the results were overwhelmingly plastered with elements of Heinz' signature branding. We have to say, this AI art is some of the least weird we've seen, even with the ketchup bottle floating in a swimming pool. A perfect follow-up to the campaign that had people draw their own impressions of ketchup (this was hilarious, ketch-up on it right here), the experiment simply proved that Heinz is synonymous with ketchup, whoever (or whatever) you ask. Of course, the iconic logo had a big part to play (it's so good, it should be in our best logos list) – but so did that shade of red, and the bottle shape.
Would you eat a burger made in a vending machine? People in New Jersey are
"Hello Human," says the glowing screen of RoboBurger in a Jersey City mall. RoboBurger is advertised as "the world's first burger robot in a box." It is essentially a burger vending machine -- or as co-founder Dan Braido puts it, "a whole kitchen shoved into 12-square feet." The touch screen at Newport Centre Mall allows customers to order a classic burger with ketchup, mustard and cheese, or customize the burger to remove any of those ingredients if you choose. The burger is made in about six minutes and costs $6.99; the machine accepts card, Apple Pay and Google Pay.