Published April 13, 2025 6:00am EDT close New AI humanoid robot learns to mimic human emotions and behavior in real time It's like a real-life WALL-E, but with even more personality. Ready for a robot that not only looks human but also acts and reacts like one, expressing emotions like shyness, excitement or friendliness? Disney Research, the innovation powerhouse behind The Walt Disney Company, has turned this into reality. Its latest creation is an autonomous humanoid robot that can mimic human emotions and behaviors in real time. Think of it as a real-life WALL-E, but with even more personality.This groundbreaking robot uses advanced artificial intelligence to replicate natural gestures and deliberate actions with striking accuracy. What makes it truly special is how it learns by observing and mimicking human operators who guide its emotional responses during interactions. Over time, the robot becomes capable of engaging with people on its own, making every interaction feel personal and lifelike.STAY PROTECTED & INFORMED! GET SECURITY ALERTS & EXPERT TECH TIPS — SIGN UP FOR KURT’S THE CYBERGUY REPORT NOW Autonomous humanoid robot can mimic human emotions and behaviors  (Disney Research)How does it work? Training robots to feelThe secret sauce behind this emotional robot lies in its training process. Initially, a human operator remotely controlled the robot, using instincts and social intuition to guide its behavior. For example, if someone approached the robot shyly, the operator would respond in kind, teaching the robot how to mirror that emotion. These interactions were recorded and fed into an AI system that analyzed every movement and response.WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)?Disney Research explains it best: "Our model learns to predict continuous operator commands through a diffusion process and discrete commands through a classifier."In simpler terms, the AI learns two things, smooth movements (like waving) and specific actions (like saying hello). After extensive training in simulations, the robot was tested with real people, and it nailed it. Users could even recognize different "moods" generated by the robot’s AI. This autonomous humanoid robot can mimic human emotions and behaviors.  (Disney Research)The role of Newton: A physics engine for next-gen roboticsBehind this innovation is Newton, an open-source physics engine developed by Disney Research in collaboration with NVIDIA and Google DeepMind. Newton is designed to close the "sim-to-real" gap in robotics by creating ultra-realistic virtual environments where robots can be trained efficiently. This means robots can practice complex tasks, like interacting with soft objects or navigating tricky terrains, before stepping into the real world.Newton’s capabilities are impressive:Differentiable physics: It allows robots to optimize their movements by simulating how actions will play out in real-world scenarios.Extensibility: Robots can interact with diverse objects like food or fabric, making them perfect for entertainment purposes.GPU acceleration: With NVIDIA’s Warp technology, simulations run up to 100 times faster than traditional methods.Disney plans to use Newton to enhance its robotic character platform, which includes expressive droids like the Star Wars-inspired BDX models showcased at NVIDIA’s GTC keynote this year.GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE An autonomous humanoid robot that can mimic human emotions and behaviors  (Disney Research)Disney’s vision: Robots that tell storiesFor Disney, these humanoid robots are more than just technological advances. They’re storytellers. Kyle Laughlin, senior vice president of Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development, shared his excitement about what’s next."This collaboration will allow us to create a new generation of robotic characters that are more expressive and engaging than ever before — and connect with our guests in ways that only Disney can," he said.The BDX droids are just the beginning. Disney envisions a future in which robots aren’t just tools but companions that make you laugh, cry and feel connected, just like your favorite Disney characters. An autonomous humanoid robot can mimic human emotions and behaviors  (Disney Research)Kurt's key takeawaysDisney’s humanoid robot is a peek into a future where machines don’t just assist us, they engage with us emotionally. With billions of humanoid robots expected by 2050, innovations like these are setting the stage for a world where technology feels more human than ever before. Who knows? The next time you visit a Disney park, you might just find yourself chatting with a robot that feels as alive as you do.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPHow do you feel about robots that can mimic human emotions? Do you think they could enhance our lives, or does the idea of machines expressing feelings make you uneasy? Let us know by writing us atCyberguy.com/ContactFor more of my tech tips and security alerts, subscribe to my free CyberGuy Report Newsletter by heading to Cyberguy.com/Newsletter Ask Kurt a question or let us know what stories you'd like us to coverFollow Kurt on his social channelsAnswers to the most asked CyberGuy questions:New from Kurt:Copyright 2025 CyberGuy.com.  All rights reserved.   Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson is an award-winning tech journalist who has a deep love of technology, gear and gadgets that make life better with his contributions for Fox News & FOX Business beginning mornings on "FOX & Friends." Got a tech question? 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Paul Souders/Getty Images Lonesome George, the last of the Pinta Island tortoises, died in 2012, leaving no offspring. His solitude was imposed upon him by humans who killed the rest of his species and brought goats to his island in the Galapagos, destroying their habitat. But Lonesome George probably didn’t much mind being on his own. Tortoises are generally solitary, coming together only to mate. The same is true of most reptiles and even many mammals, including bears, moose, tigers, sloths, platypuses, rhinos and pangolins. As social creatures ourselves, it is only natural that we are fascinated by animal societies, from wolf packs to ant colonies. But to understand sociality, we must look at the flip side: why do some animals prefer to go it alone? Surprisingly, researchers have paid little attention to this question. “People are only interested in group-living species with complex societies,” says Carsten Schradin at the Hubert Curien Pluridisciplinary Institute in Strasbourg, France. “But if you don’t understand why, in many cases, solitary living is the better solution, you also miss a total understanding of group living.” Now, Schradin and a handful of pioneering biologists are addressing this oversight. Already, their research reveals that being solitary isn’t simply the ancestral lifestyle for mammals, but an evolved strategy, a specialised way of living, with its own pros and cons. What’s more, animals considered solitary aren’t necessarily antisocial: it turns out that many of them have structured social networks, even if they spend most of their time by themselves. These creatures give us a new perspective…

Modern Media LLC 2025-04-13T10:44:01Z Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? This post originally appeared in the BI Today newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider's daily newsletter here. Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. Aspiring entrepreneurs, take note: A new AI startup founded by Yale students aims to compete with LinkedIn — and we got a hold of the pitch deck it used to raise $3 million.On the agenda today:Her father created Spider-Man. She was cut off from the Marvel empire.Microsoft is mulling job cuts that could happen as early as next month.Trump is reviled from Canada to China. American tourists are paying the price.Our reporter visited Hooters and saw why the chain is facing bankruptcy.But first: House hunting is about to change.If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Download Business Insider's app here.This week's dispatch Tyler Le/BI The Great Zillow ZapMany of us lurk on real estate portals like Zillow and Redfin, even if just for fun. Now, users are coming across properties on these sites that appear to be "off-market" but are actually for sale … if you know where to look.Our housing reporter extraordinaire James Rodriguez published a must-read story this week about how new rules for real estate agents are pushing listings away from catch-all platforms toward exclusive brokerage sites. I sat down with James to learn more — and to get his prediction for what's next in the housing market.James, this week you wrote about changes that mean fewer home listings are making it onto sites like Zillow, or are taking longer to land there. That's no fun for lurkers! But overall, does this shift benefit buyers, sellers, both or neither?Buyers are, for sure, the big losers: They just want to see all the homes available for sale, and it's getting tougher to do that. For sellers, they might benefit from a private test run within a brokerage before their property hits very public Zillow. But Zillow says it will penalize sellers who try to do this, and there is certainly a benefit to reaching the widest possible range of buyers. The true winners will be the big brokers and agents who end up controlling access to listings and boosting their bottom lines.In the last year or so, the rules around brokerage commissions and listings have changed — are home buyers and sellers truly better off? Or not so much?The short answer is not really. The status quo is hard to overcome: Agent commissions are roughly the same, and consumers are confused about all the new rules (or don't even know about them). That said, as the news continues to spread, there will be more opportunities for savvy buyers and sellers to negotiate better outcomes. That's why I've spent a lot of time breaking down these changes and what they mean for the average person.You wrote in October that it looked like the housing market would de-freeze by spring. How is that prediction working out?There are definitely some bright spots. Buyers have a lot more options this spring: I wrote that inventory would be the big figure to watch, and the number of homes for sale in March was up almost 30% from a year ago. But both sides are, understandably, cautious right now: The typical mortgage rate jumped this week to around 7%, and there's a lot of economic uncertainty, to put it mildly. Stay tuned!Growing up Marvel Stan Lee and his daughter, JC Lee. Courtesy of J.C. Lee JC Lee has been widely portrayed as the villain of the Stan Lee story: the spoiled, impossible child who exploited her father, then failed to protect him in his final years.People close to JC and her father tell a different story. "The main thing JC inherited from her father is she has a real knack for surrounding herself with con men," one of Stan's closest confidants said. Now, JC is ready to tell her side of the story.Microsoft mulls more job cuts REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz Another round of Microsoft cuts could come as soon as May, focusing on middle managers, non-coders, and more low performers, according to people familiar with the matter.It's unclear how many roles will be slashed. However, some Microsoft organizations want to increase their "span of control" and decrease the ratio of product managers or program managers to engineers, sources told BI.Make America Hated Again Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BI As spring and summer vacations roll in, some American tourists are finding an unseasonally icy welcome abroad. Treated with awkwardness, pity, or straight-up hostility, they're starting to rethink their travel plans.For American expats, their home country becoming the global frenemy means some conversations about President Trump are unavoidable. Even when Americans leave the US, its politics follow them.What happened to Hooters? Alex Bitter/BI Hooters of America filed for bankruptcy in March. BI's Alex Bitter went to one location to find out why. 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By Isaac Schultz Published April 13, 2025 | Comments (0) | An artist's concept of the planet's orbit of the star. Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just gave a cosmic mystery a serious plot twist. The event in question—a sudden brightening from a star about 12,000 light-years away—was initially chalked up to the star swelling into a red giant and engulfing a nearby planet, a typical tale in some star systems. But not this time. Webb’s perceptive infrared gaze, courtesy of its MIRI and NIRSpec instruments, peered deep into the dusty aftermath with its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) and Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) and found otherwise. The star, ZTF SLRN-2020, wasn’t puffing up like a balloon—it appeared calm. Which means the planet didn’t get accidentally gobbled up in explosive stellar behavior. Instead, the distant world was doomed by a slow orbital death spiral. The new research, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, revealed that the unfortunate, roughly-Jupiter-sized planet was orbiting way too close for comfort—closer to its host star than Mercury is to our Sun. Over millions of years, that orbit shrank until the planet skimmed the star’s atmosphere. The planet’s material began to “smear around the star,” according to study co-author Morgan MacLeod, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and MIT, in a Webb Space Telescope release. The planet’s story then ended with a fiery faceplant into the star. “Because this is such a novel event, we didn’t quite know what to expect when we decided to point this telescope in its direction,” said Ryan Lau, lead author of the paper and an astronomer at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab, in the same release. “With its high-resolution look in the infrared, we are learning valuable insights about the final fates of planetary systems, possibly including our own.” When the planet’s material smeared onto ZTF SLRN-2020 it likely caused the dramatic brightening that caught astronomers’ attention. In fact, it’s revising astronomers’ account of the first star seen actively swallowing a planet. The gnarly observation was part of one of Webb’s Target of Opportunity programs—reserved for sudden cosmic weirdness, like supernovas or, apparently, planetary doom spirals. With next-gen telescopes like the Vera Rubin Observatory and Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope gearing up, we’re likely to catch a lot more of these macabre stories of planetary ends. Daily Newsletter You May Also Like By Passant Rabie Published April 1, 2025 By Passant Rabie Published March 27, 2025 By Isaac Schultz Published March 24, 2025 By Isaac Schultz Published March 21, 2025 By Isaac Schultz Published March 17, 2025 By Isaac Schultz Published March 14, 2025

Hidden Ladies suites / inDetail ArchitectureSave this picture!© South space for photography Architects: inDetail Architecture Area Area of this architecture project Area:  180 m² Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2020 Photographs Photographs:South space for photographyMore SpecsLess Specs Save this picture! Text description provided by the architects. The location of the project is characteristic of the southern coast of the Regional District of Chania in Crete, the White Mountains towering the place to the north, and the Libyan Sea opening wide as if infinite to the south of it. The mountains disintegrate moving towards the sea as rocky gorges and gullies. One of these dry gullies runs through the project's plot, meeting a larger one later on that ends in a hidden beach. Such as the topography of the site is, it called out for a play with the precipice, even the concept of the gully. Meanwhile, the southern Crete climate, hot and dry, forms a barren natural landscape, dominated by thyme, oregano, and dry bushes, on top of which the region's cultivating tradition creates grids of olive trees. Some of these spread into the building plot.Save this picture!The site itself had already established a vocabulary of a dry terrain discontinued by broken lines. In came the building program and its' necessities. The project consists of four 45 m2 suites with their courtyards, which required privacy from each other, along with an unobstructed view of the place's feats. The synthesis is arranged as four new "valleys" cut gradually into the ground along the terrain's contours, each one ending at the yard a suite. The olive trees' grid is left untouched as much as possible to ensure the general continuity of the landscape. The northern scarps of these "valleys" form the main facades of the buildings, while the southern ones define the boundaries of each studio's outside living spaces, preventing the soil in front from spilling into them. Each Lady is Hidden from the next, embedded into the ground, being able to look only beside and above the previous one, as well as across the gully, enjoying the view of both the sea and the rocky formations.Save this picture!White colour is used to outline the "valleys'" ridges, on the buildings' facades and landscaping walls. The walkway that connects the suites' domain entrance with the adjacent hotel is paved with stone, a material that ascends vertically to hold the soils beyond the buildings' area. Stone blends with the surrounding rocky terrain -being cut from it actually- as well as with the various enclosures and fences of old. Polished concrete of mostly white cement is used for the rest of the hard landscaping, in order to give a sense of a continuous ground. The buildings make ample use of glass, making the interior spaces look as if it is one with the surroundings. The whole floor of each suite is laid with cement paste that turns vertical on the walls, adding to the continuity of space. The paste ascends to cover any fix-built furniture, as if they are part of the "ground". The interior design is kept stripped-down yet sophisticated, with plenty of details in wooden surfaces, embedded window casings, ceiling, and lighting. All-in-all, the project aims to offer to its' residents a modern minimal space to live, cut into a natural minimal environment.Save this picture! Project gallerySee allShow less Project locationAddress:Sfakia, GreeceLocation to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.About this office Published on April 13, 2025Cite: "Hidden Ladies suites / inDetail Architecture" 13 Apr 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1028735/hidden-ladies-suites-indetail-architecture&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save世界上最受欢迎的建筑网站现已推出你的母语版本!想浏览ArchDaily中国吗?是否 You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

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