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1.5 million-year-old Homo erectus face was just reconstructed — and its mix of old and new traits is complicating the picture of human evolution

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...

Four impressive robot demos from 2025, and one big miss

It’s been quite a year for humanoid robots, with all manner of increasingly advanced designs coming to our attention. The ...
Robohub

The science of human touch – and why it’s so hard to replicate in robots

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate ...
News-Medical.Net

Researchers create the most detailed 3D maps of the human genome

In a landmark effort to understand how the physical structure of our DNA influences human biology, Northwestern investigators and the 4D Nucleome Project have unveiled the most detailed maps to date ...

Scientists Built a Working Brain—And Now the ‘Possibilities Are Endless,’ a Scientist Says

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...
GitHub

MHR - Momentum Human Rig

A minimal Python package for the Momentum Human Rig - a parametric 3D human body model with identity, pose, and facial expression parameterization. New to TorchScript model? In short it's a Graph mode ...

If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?

If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you? - IN DEPTH: When a ‘creepy’ AI startup went viral for its ...

Napster and Global Objects Partner to Bring High-Fidelity Digital Twins to AI-Powered Commerce

Ethical AI Training Rails : The verified and secured data sets from Global Objects provide a high-quality, ethically-sourced foundation for training Napster's AI agents, preventing drift and ensuring ...
IEEE

Application of ViT models with hyper attention mechanism on skin cancer classification

Abstract: The ViT model has excellent performance in image classification tasks and has been applied in several fields. However, ViT is difficult to be retrained and applied under limited hardware ...
IEEE

A Biophysical-Based Skin Model for Heterogeneous Volume Rendering

Abstract: Realistic human skin rendering has been a long-standing challenge in computer graphics. Recently, biophysical-based skin rendering has received increasing attention, as it provides a more ...

In What Ways Will Real-World Infrastructure Integrate With Metaverse Digital Twins?

Know how real-world infrastructure integrates with metaverse digital twins. Learn about IoT, predictive maintenance, and ...
GitHub

PersPose: 3D Human Pose Estimation with Perspective Encoding and Perspective Rotation

This is the offical Pytorch implementation of PersPose, which estimates the 3D positions of joints from individual images. Below is the overall framework. We design Perspective Encoding (PE) to encode ...