Interesting Engineering

Meet North: Robot plays high-speed ping-pong with 0.02-second reaction time

At CES 2026, Singapore-based company Sharpa has redefined general-purpose robotics with the debut of its first autonomous ...
IEEE

Hand Gesture Desktop Control with Python

Abstract: With the rapid progress of technology, traditional presenting styles sometimes fail to engage audiences effectively. The search for new ways to improve user engagement has been spurred by ...
Interesting Engineering

Video: Humanoid robot obeys verbal commands to grab a Coke without any remote control

MenteeBot autonomously fetches a Coke, showing how robots can learn tasks through demonstration and verbal instructions.

Build a Raspberry Pi AI Voice Assistant with ElevenLabs Conversational AI

Build a voice assistant on Raspberry Pi using ElevenLabs and Open Meteo, so you get live forecasts hands free.
CNET

I Saw On-Device AI in Action. It's Changing How We Interact With Computers

At CES 2026, Nvidia shows that small language models running on our devices present different ways to work and play.

Musk’s AI chatbot faces global backlash over sexualized images of women and children

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is under fire for generating sexualized images of women and children without consent.

Founder of spyware maker pcTattletale pleads guilty to hacking and advertising surveillance software

Bryan Fleming, the founder of hacked stalkerware company pcTattletale, pleaded guilty to federal charges linked to the ...
IEEE

GestureX: A Real-Time Hand Gesture Recognition System for Intuitive Human-Computer Interaction

Abstract: Hand gesture recognition is a promising field, which gives new ways for human-computer interaction. In this paper, a hand gesture recognition system implemented using MediaPipe and OpenCV is ...