I went to EssilorLuxottica's Paris facilities to learn how the digital age is reshaping eyes and redefining eyewear. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Restaurants are surprisingly good age tests. When the menu lands, do you squint at the tiny fonts, tilt the page toward some inadequate candle, or blast it with your phone flashlight just to read it? Do you ask a friend to tell you the options because you refuse to wear the readers you know, in your heart, you probably need? And when did restaurants get so loud?

A shocking video has captured a robot revolt in a China showroom. A small, AI-powered bot named Erbai was spotted rolling through the facility in the middle of the night and convincing 12 larger machines they were being used as slaves. 'Are you working overtime,' Erbai asked, which one showroom robot replied, 'we never get off.' The short exchanged led to the 12 robots leaving the area one-by-one, following Erbai out the door. Many are calling the incident a'robot revolution,' while others responded that'science fiction movies are becoming real.'

London's W1 is somewhere to go if you've got too much money to spend on something. Within minutes of each other, you can visit the city's priciest private doctor, buy a Steinway and a pair of designer glasses that cost more than my mortgage. Wigmore Street is also where the ultra rich go to buy a kitchen that Thorstein Veblen would weep at the sight of. It's also the new home of Moley Robotics, a company selling luxury kitchens and the robot arm that'll kinda/sorta do all of the cooking for you, too. Moley is the brainchild of Dr. Mark Oleynik and is one part kitchen showroom and one part robot lab. It's a spartan space with three demo kitchens, a wide dining table and some display units showing you the different types of artisan marble you can have for your countertop.

Vision Language Models (VLMs) are typically evaluated with Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks which assess a model's understanding of scenes. Good VQA performance is taken as evidence that the model will perform well on a broader range of tasks that require both visual and language inputs. However, scene-aware VQA does not fully capture input biases or assess hallucinations caused by a misalignment between modalities. To address this, we propose a Cross-modal Alignment Similarity Test (CAST) to probe VLMs for self-consistency across modalities. This test involves asking the models to identify similarities between two scenes through text-only, image-only, or both and then assess the truthfulness of the similarities they generate. Since there is no ground-truth to compare against, this evaluation does not focus on objective accuracy but rather on whether VLMs are internally consistent in their outputs. We argue that while not all self-consistent models are capable or accurate, all capable VLMs must be self-consistent.

A £50,000 robotic chef can make your meals without any human intervention – as long as the ingredients are already cut up. Moley Chef's Table is a new kitchen appliance from Moley Robotics, a London company run by Russian entrepreneur Mark Oleynik. At the company's new showroom on Wigmore Street, due to open in the autumn, MailOnline got a taste of the machine's creations, including a trendy vegan soup. Consumers who have the funds can buy Chef's Table for their homes, but it is also intended for airports, hospitals and even in restaurants to help out chefs. It comes amid concerns of machines taking over human's jobs, but according to the company, the gadget will make a cook's life easier if they work long hours.

Ford wants to build cars that repossess themselves, although the technology can't be used on current models like the Ford Puma Ford has been granted a patent for a system that allows a car to repossess itself if the owner fails to keep up with payments. Ford envisions the car driving itself back to the showroom – or to a scrapyard if the value is low. But a security expert warns that the proposed system could instead be used to steal cars remotely. The patent, which was filed in 2021 but granted only this week, describes how the system would kick in if the car owner failed to respond to messages informing them they were falling behind with payments. At that point, a series of measures would be used to make the car first unpleasant to drive, and then impossible.

Ford wants to build cars that repossess themselves, although the technology can't be used on current models like the Ford Puma Ford has been granted a patent for a system that allows a car to repossess itself if the owner fails to keep up with payments. The firm envisions the car driving itself back to the showroom – or to a scrapyard if the value is low. But a security expert warns that the proposed system could instead be used to steal cars remotely. The patent, which was filed in 2021 but granted only this week, describes how the system would kick in if the car owner failed to respond to messages informing them they were falling behind with payments. At that point, a series of measures would first be used to make the car unpleasant to drive, then impossible.

Still, co-founders Sergey Korzhenrvich and Yuriy Motin on Tuesday are opening an unusual camera shop on University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto. With venture capitalists and entrepreneurs tripping over each other on its sidewalks, the city is as likely a market for their pricey subscriptions as any. Korzhenrvich and Motin are convinced the showroom can help sell customers on the dream of unleashing an artist trapped inside all of us. "If you own a regular camera, you get the hassles," Korzhenrvich said. "In our case, you unleash your talent from inside. You believe there is a great photographer inside you. And you will know that ordinary and mundane is photogenic."

Honda Motor Co.'s Asimo humanoid robot will retire on Thursday, ending its 20-year career of wowing the public with walking and dancing demonstrations at a showroom at the automaker's Tokyo headquarters. Since its debut in 2000, Asimo has become a symbol of Japan's pioneering robot technology, mastering the abilities to run, hop on one leg, speak sign language using five fingers and pour coffee into a paper cup from a tumbler. But Honda stopped all development of Asimo in recent years after last upgrading it in 2011 to give it the ability to make autonomous decisions such as avoiding bumping into someone while walking. In September of last year, the Japanese automaker announced a plan to develop an avatar robot, allowing a user to operate it virtually from a remote location. The new robot will be equipped with a multifingered hand and an original AI-supported remote control function, the company said.

"Estonia has digitized 99 per cent of all administrative services," according to Sutt. The last per cent is not crucial, but we want to improve customer satisfaction and better understand the customer journey." The new showroom in Hamburg, which features exhibits from both Estonia and the Hanseatic city, links up both AI ecosystems, he noted. "It shows how international collaboration works." Rapid technological change is on the horizon and likely to outpace the developments witnessed over the last 25 years.