📌 TOPINDIATOURS Hot ai: Alarming New Video Shows Robot Making Incredibly Realistic

A  robotics company in China has shown off a humanoid robotic head that can express emotions through extremely subtle movements of its facial features.

A video that has gone viral on social media shows the face glancing around the room with a quizzical expression. Its eyes blink in an eerily lifelike way, selling the illusion surprisingly well.

Hangzhou, China-based outfit AheadForm, which is behind the impressive demo, claims on its website to combine “self-supervised AI algorithms” and wide-range “bionic actuation” to “express authentic emotions and lifelike facial expressions.”

The demo goes to show how far human mimicry in the field of humanoid robotics has come, landing in the furthest reaches of the uncanny valley.

“Well… ‘Westworld’ is closer than I thought,” one Reddit user pondered in response to the video, referring to the hit HBO sci-fi show — and 1973 movie, and Michael Crichton novel — about a fictional amusement park populated by android “hosts.”

No uncanny valley,just ultra-humanlike robots that feel natural.

Hangzhou-based AheafFrom isn’t just building emotional humanoid robots, but replicas of future humans.

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AheadForm says it’s already developed a series of “ultra-lifelike” humanoid “elves,” which can “perceive the world, communicate, learn, and interact intelligently with its surroundings” thanks to an “advanced AI learning algorithm.”

According to the company’s founder, Hu Yuhang, the lines between human and robot are bound to continue to blur, eventually becoming barely distinguishable from each other.

“Within ten years, we might interact with robots and feel like they are almost human; maybe in 20 years, they could walk normally and perform some tasks just like a human,” he told the South China Morning Post last year.

For now, the humanoid robot industry’s main focus is productivity, rather than mimicking human personality expressions. A growing cohort of companies, including Tesla, is aiming to replace human labor with their offerings, teach them how to kickbox, and selling them as the ultimate household aid.

However, as Yuhang suggests, such a future appears to still be a long way out. Not everybody’s convinced that bipedal robots are the answer, either, with some arguing that purpose-built industrial robots will always be a better option.

In the meantime, AheadForm aims to prepare us for an android-filled future by using AI to make human-robot interactions more “natural and engaging.”

But given their robots’ disconcertingly probing eyes, that won’t be an easy task.

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📌 TOPINDIATOURS Breaking ai: Astronomers Spot Something "Totally Unexpected&q

A supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a supergiant galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, is acting far more strangely than anticipated.

Since 2017, astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — an international collaboration combining a global network of radio telescopes — have closely watched the enormous gaping maw, resulting in the first-ever images of a black hole ever captured by humankind.

Now, by comparing observations from 2017, 2018, and 2021, scientists made a surprising discovery about how the magnetic fields near the black hole, dubbed M87*, change over time.

As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, an international team of astronomers discovered that the black hole’s polarization flipped between 2017 and 2021, raising the possibility of a complex internal magnetic structure near its event horizon, the boundary in space beyond which nothing, even including light, can escape.

The findings suggest that magnetic fields play a significant role in how matter gets sucked up into the black hole and how energy gets spat back out, while also highlighting how much there’s still to learn about these cosmic monstrosities.

“What’s remarkable is that while the ring size has remained consistent over the years — confirming the black hole’s shadow predicted by Einstein’s theory — the polarization pattern changes significantly,” said coauthor and Harvard astronomer Paul Tiede in a statement. “This tells us that the magnetized plasma swirling near the event horizon is far from static; it’s dynamic and complex, pushing our theoretical models to the limit.”

Thanks to many improvements and instrument upgrades to the EHT project, scientists now have a smorgasbord of new data to examine that “will certainly keep us busy for many more years,” co-lead and Radboud University Nijmegen assistant professor Michael Janssen added.

According to the analysis, M87*’s polarization pattern flipped between 2017 and 2021, which “was totally unexpected,” as coauthor and Kyunghee University astronomer Jongho Park put it in the statement.

The finding “challenges our models and shows there’s much we still don’t understand near the event horizon,” he added.

Thanks to several new telescopes that were added to the EHT’s global network in 2021, the team was able to examine the spiraling, jet-like beams of energetic particles leaving M87* at almost the speed of light.

This enhanced sensitivity allowed them to detect “subtle polarization signals,” as coauthor and Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy postdoctoral researcher Sebastiano von Fellenberg explained in the statement.

The scientific community is celebrating the latest findings as a major breakthrough in our understanding of black holes.

“These results show how the EHT is evolving into a fully fledged scientific observatory, capable not only of delivering unprecedented images, but of building a progressive and coherent understanding of black hole physics,” said University of Naples Federico II astronomy professor and EHT project scientist Mariafelicia De Laurentis.

“It is a concrete demonstration of the extraordinary scientific potential of this instrument,” she added.

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