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Video: World’s most advanced humanoid robot, Ameca, draws a cat

Engineered Arts, a company that designs, engineers, and manufactures humanoid robots, which is also behind Ameca, has now given Ameca the power to imagine drawings.

In a video released on their YouTube Channel on June 29, 2023, Ameca is being asked to make a drawing of a cat. Previously, Engineered Arts have demonstrated Ameca’s ability to express many different kinds of human emotions and their ability to speak in multiple languages.

Does this mean we might see Ameca’s original works displayed at a museum, like the DALL-E exhibit at bitforms gallery, in the future?

The Philosophy of Grant Petty and the Future of Blackmagic Design

Throw a stone at any creative product nowadays, and you’ll hit an AI-supported feature. But for Blackmagic Design, AI has already been used for about half a decade under a different name — the DaVinci Resolve Neural Engine.


Their use of AI is impressive but you’d think they’d have good continuous autofocus by now.

I’m going have to split this post into an AI post aswell.

The Simplest Synthetic Cells Have Been Seen Evolving Faster Than Natural Ones

Single-celled life forms need just the simplest of evolutionary footholds to get a leg up in their environment.

Even an extremely minimal cell that contains just 493 genes can mutate and adapt to improve its fitness, researchers say – a critical step in the persistence and stability of life that has now been demonstrated in the laboratory.

The insights come from a new study by a team of researchers from the US and Brazil, which stripped a cell of all but its essential genes to see if it could still evolve.