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Philip Norman worked as an illustrator, author and artist before making his first forays into engineering and mechanics.

Abstract: We introduce OV-MAP, a novel approach to open-world 3D mapping for mobile robots by integrating open-features into 3D maps to enhance object recognition capabilities. A significant challenge ...

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A California startup says it has officially completed its first fully 3D-printed home, marking a futuristic step toward what could be a faster — and cheaper — way to build housing in the Golden State.

Humanoid robots are becoming harder to distinguish from real people, and a new study from China points to one reason why. Researchers have developed a large-scale 3D facial dataset and a new AI model ...

Abstract: In recent years, humanoid robots have gradually emerged as crucial “smart terminals” within the IoT, significantly expanding the application scenarios of IoT. This paper proposes a visual ...