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  1. RoboticsReach 47

    TUM's underwater AI robot can haul 550-pound trash from the seabed

    Researchers at the Technical University of Munich have built an autonomous underwater robot capable of finding and hauling ocean debris. Powered by sonar and cameras, on-board AI turns seabed scans into 3D models so a four-fingered gripper can lift up to 250 kilograms without crushing fragile objects.

  2. ResearchReach 33

    Meta can now turn 4 selfies into a photorealistic 3D avatar

    Meta researchers just unveiled Avat3r, an AI system that generates an animatable, photorealistic 3D avatar head in minutes using only four phone selfies. It uses a vision transformer to predict 3D Gaussians, drastically lowering the hardware barrier from specialized multi-camera rigs. While rendering currently crawls at 8 FPS on an RTX 3090, it points toward effortless avatar setup for future headsets.