IEEE

Learning Robust Whole-Body Control for Legged Manipulation via Learned Terrain Estimation

Abstract: Quadruped robots can perform various tasks across diverse terrains but face limitations due to the difficulty of interacting with environments. Adding manipulation capabilities allows these ...
Microsoft

Securing AI agents: When AI tools move from reading to acting

MCP tool poisoning turns trusted AI agents into a control plane for data loss. Learn how threat actors manipulate tool ...

Linguistic reason Barbie's iconic speech became a cultural moment, and what Aristotle has to do with it

Everyone remembers where they were when Gloria lost it. The Barbie movie's big speech—America Ferrera, voice breaking, listing every single impossible thing the world expects women to be—hit something ...
Our Wabi Sabi Life on MSN

8 phrases manipulative people use that most of us fall for without noticing

Most of us like to think we'd spot manipulation the moment it walks through the door. The reality is considerably more ...
Emily Standley Allard on MSN

Forbidden language: The shocking history behind your favorite curse words

This article delves into the origins of swear words, tracing their historical journey and exploring examples of how they ...
BusinessMirrorOpinion

Why Beijing engages Manila’s Chinese press

A recent article frames Beijing’s outreach to Manila’s Chinese-language press as a propaganda offensive, arguing that ...
IEEE

Language-Driven Multi-Task Manipulation With Action-Mask-Enhanced Multimodal Learning

Abstract: For long-horizon multi-task robotic manipulation, hierarchical approaches provide an effective way to combine high-level language-based task planning with low-level vision-language based sub ...
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Human-Comparable Sensitivity of Large Language Models in Identifying Eligible Studies Through Title and Abstract Screening: 3-Layer Strategy Using GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 for ...

Human-Comparable Sensitivity of Large Language Models in Identifying Eligible Studies Through Title and Abstract Screening: 3-Layer Strategy Using GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 for Systematic Reviews ...
GitHub

Can We Get Rid of Handcrafted Feature Extractors? SparseViT: Nonsemantics-Centered, Parameter-Efficient Image Manipulation Localization through Spare-Coding Transformer

Official repository for the AAAI2025 paper Can We Get Rid of Handcrafted Feature Extractors? SparseViT: Nonsemantics-Centered, Parameter-Efficient Image Manipulation Localization through Spare-Coding ...
GitHub

VLA-Cache: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Manipulation via Adaptive Token Caching

🔥 [2025/09/18] Our VLA-Cache is accepted by NeurIPS 2025! 🔥 [2025/06/12]: Code for OpenVLA is available (OpenVLA README). 🔥 [2025/05/29]: Code for OpenVLA-OFT is released (OpenVLA-OFT README).
The Conversation

Kids learn to bully from adults’ threats, manipulation and criticism – a child psychologist explains how parents can model better tactics

“Do what I say, or you’re not invited to my birthday party!” “I’m not going to be your partner on the project unless you give me the treat from your lunch!” These kinds of threats are tactics many ...
Psychology Today

3 Major Ways a Manipulator Will Try to Exploit You

You’ve been there. Frustrated, baffled, and angry at a friend or family member who continually manipulates you into serving their needs while they ignore and dismiss yours. When you say something, ...