Robots are getting better at reasoning and planning, yet they still stumble on a more basic question: where, exactly, is the thing I am supposed to pick up? On November 4, 2026, XPENG announced GroundingPI, an open-source visual perception model built with researchers from Peking University, The University of Hong Kong and other institutions, that tackles that question head-on.
According to XPENG's announcement, the roughly 4-billion-parameter model reached an average score of 73.68 across 34 p...
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An intelligent, in-home garden.
The Grove Ecosystem is an intelligent indoor garden that enables people to grow fresh, flavorful, and healthy food year-round. The ecosystem contains an aquarium, where fish eat food and turn it into waste. Bacteria take that waste and turn it into nitrates, which is a critical fertilizer for plants. A plumbing system pumps the nitrate-enriched water through the plant beds, creating a self-enclosed ecosystem. This symbiosis between fish, plants, and bacteria is called aquaponics. The ecoystems c...
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New moulds can sculpt vegetables and fruits in different shapes
Tony Dighera in California has come up with a technology to develop molds that can sculpts edible fruits and vegetables to look like just about anything you want.
Fruits can be grown to form various shapes like Frankstein's Face or Buddha or into any other idea that appeals to the customers. Plastic molds with the required shapes are placed over immature fruits till they ripen.
The art of modifying, arranging, or decorating food to enhance its aesthetic appeal is known as "plating." This u...
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