Search: “hardware”

Market ai as a tool, not as a pending catastrophe.

In light of recent events and media coverage, ai is in the spotlight and people are afraid. How I respond to those fears: If you are afraid of ai then you should also be afraid of all medical research

local-air-ollama

23 Sept 2026

Human

Content type

All Blog X Post Paper YouTube Reddit GitHub

Clear filters

MatcherCompass: A Deployment-Aware Benchmark to Guide Image Matcher Selection in the Wild

DGX agent

arXiv:2609.25688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Field robots operating across time of day and sensing modalities require accurate image correspondences within onboard time and resource budgets. Howeve

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

23 Sept 2026

Sample, Simulate, Select: Physics-in-the-Loop Text-to-Motion for Humanoids Without Training

arXiv:2609.26420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-motion models generate plausible human motion but do not model a robot's dynamics; whole-body tracking controllers execute robot references reli

23 Sept 2026

Which small model works best with Ollama on a Raspberry Pi 5?

I've been comparing and working on Gemma 4, Phi-4-Mini, and Qwen3-4B for local LLM use on an 8 GB Raspberry Pi 5. The results were indeed close, but each model has a different strength: Gemma 4 E2B: a

23 Sept 2026

Applications

A Hybrid Quantum Neural Network to Analyse Big Experimental Powder X-ray Diffraction Data

arXiv:2609.22376v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantitative analysis of experimental powder X-ray diffraction data remains challenging when evaluating complex multiphase materials and noisy measure

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

Industry

Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic open-sources Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0, giving developers building blocks for physical AI systems (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic open-sources Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0, giving developers building blocks for physical AI systems — Intrinsic Inn

industrytechmeme

An Affordable AI-Integrated Smart Cane for Multimodal Mobility Assistance of Visually Impaired Users

arXiv:2609.22277v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual impairment affects over 2.2 billion people worldwide, yet conventional white canes cannot detect elevated hazards or provide semantic environme

researcharxiv-cs-cv

Learning Energy-Efficient Air--Ground Actuation for Hybrid Robots on Stair-Like Terrain

arXiv:2603.26687v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hybrid aerial--ground robots can use thrust to cross obstacles that impede wheel-driven motion, but deciding how much thrust to apply during contact

Task-Oriented Co-Design and Optimization of Geared Actuators for Robotic Applications

arXiv:2609.22795v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Different tasks performed by legged robots impose distinct torque and speed requirements on actuators. Existing robotic actuators are generally optimize

researcharxiv-cs-ro

A Sim-to-Real Integration Pipeline for Training and Deployment of Chunk-Based VLA Manipulation Policies

arXiv:2609.21817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a prominent paradigm for mapping multimodal inputs, including semantic instructions, visual observations

21 Sept 2026

Deep Learning-Enhanced Real-Time Wi-Fi Sensing Through Single Transceiver Pair

arXiv:2511.02845v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The advancement of next-generation Wi-Fi technology heavily relies on sensing capabilities, which play a pivotal role in enabling sophisticate

researcharxiv-cs-ai

21 Sept 2026

HMB-GAN: Hybrid Multi-Bezier GAN for Vector Shape Synthesis

arXiv:2609.21158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We explore the use of hybrid quantum-classical generative adversarial networks for synthesising CAD-ready vector geometries. Unlike prior work that oper

21 Sept 2026

we made a 27b model for creative writing. performs as good as claude fable 5, at a 40x cheaper price, open weights.

hey! we're a small swiss and south african lab and we just put out hemmingway-1. it's a 27b model we trained specifically for roleplay, creative writing, dialogue, stories, and for everyday texting. f

20 Sept 2026

Industry

Why AI inference must become a commodity

The future of artificial intelligence inference isn’t premium; it’s ubiquitous and commoditized. That may sound odd coming from someone in the AI semiconductor business. Conventional wisdom suggests c

industrysiliconangle

20 Sept 2026

I turned an asymetric pair of Tesla V100s PCIe both (16 GB + 32 GB) into a surprisingly capable local LLM lab — 1.38k prompt tok/s, 40 decode tok/s with qwen3.8 27B Q6 and Q8...

model-releasesr-localllama

TL;DR: I run a mismatched Tesla V100-PCIE pair—one 16 GB card and one 32 GB card, 48 GB total—in a Proxmox/LXC-based local-inference lab. The practical winner so far is a recent CUDA build of llama.cp

19 Sept 2026

AI Smart Glasses for Wearable Intelligence: From Egocentric Sensing to Agentic Personalization

arXiv:2609.19793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping smart glasses from egocentric capture and display devices into platforms for wearable inte

agentsarxiv-cs-cv

AnyViewDex: View-Invariant Dexterous Manipulation from RGB Observations

arXiv:2609.20107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visuomotor policies for multi-fingered dexterous manipulation are highly sensitive to camera viewpoint shifts. To achieve view invariance, recent method

Multi-hour llama.cpp optimization experiments on Qwen MoE models, patches, benchmarks, and reproduction guides

model-releasesr-localllama

I had Astra run a multi-hour investigation into speeding up local MoE inference while keeping the model weights and quantization unchanged. The experiments covered Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Qwen3.8 Flash-Ne

SLAMSqueezeBench: Comparing SLAM Systems under Resource Constraints

arXiv:2609.19533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is one of the services running on an autonomous robot. It is typically run to assist other tasks such as pl

agentsarxiv-cs-ro

Beyond Static RAG: An Adaptive, Tri-Metric Routing Framework for Efficient Long-Context Inference on Commodity GPUs

arXiv:2609.17564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) on commodity GPUs such as the NVIDIA T4 (16 GB VRAM) exposes a practical failure mode we call the Compres

local-aiarxiv-cs-lg

From Gameplay to Policy: Towards Scalable Robot Data Collection via Gamified Robot-Free Interaction

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2609.18650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning generalizable robot manipulation policies requires large-scale and diverse interaction data, yet collecting real-world demonstrations remains c

King Charles III hosts tech leaders, including Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, to discuss AI risks; Huang calls for AI safety tests (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: King Charles III hosts tech leaders, including Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, to discuss AI risks; Huang calls for AI safety tests — Titans of the artificial inte

safetytechmeme

QEMScore: How Much Does the Measurement Add to Learned Quantum Error Mitigation?

arXiv:2609.17896v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How much does the noisy measurement add to learned quantum error mitigation? An accuracy table cannot say, because a model handed circuit structure ca

REQAP: Resilient Weight Packing and Quantization for Edge DNN Acceleration

arXiv:2609.17555v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on edge accelerators requires aggressive model compression while maintaining reliability in fault-

researcharxiv-cs-ai

The Attention Within: Consensus Dynamics in Selective State Space Models

arXiv:2609.17997v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Selective state space models (SSMs) have recently emerged as a compelling alternative to transformers, combining competitive performance with substant

local-aiarxiv-cs-ai

Tutorials

Fingers as Legs: Learning Self-Supported Locomotion and Manipulation with an Anthropomorphic Hand

arXiv:2609.17172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A walking robotic hand must use the same fingers to move its body, support its weight, and interact with the environment. We show how an anthropomorphic

tutorialsarxiv-cs-ro

LCAP: Population-Informed Latent Chip Adaptation from Few Output Probes for Photonic Neural Networks

arXiv:2609.16823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Photonic neural networks (PNNs) offer efficient analog inference, but parameters optimized under ideal device models can degrade after fabrication, crea

ProxiDex: Learning Dynamics-Guided Proximity Policy for Dexterous Manipulation

arXiv:2609.16586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-finger dexterous manipulation relies on stable hand-object interactions, yet these interactions are partially observable in practice. Visual obs

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

Structure-Preserving Quantum Circuit Architectures for Robot Kinematics

arXiv:2609.16089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured spatial data require quantum encodings that preserve geometric relations, expose measurable observables, and remain implementable on finite-d

researcharxiv-cs-ro

Agent Substrate brings high-density, scalable, trusted infrastructure to GKE

model-releasesgoogle-cloud-ai

Today, we are announcing the availability of Agent Substrate on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Agent Substrate is an open-source, secure-by-default agent execution runtime engineered to run millions

AttnFuse: A Composable DSL for Compiling Attentions to Fused GPU Kernels

arXiv:2609.13612v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern AI systems are built on the Transformer architecture, whose core operation, attention, accounts for the majority of computation and memory cost.

Certification cost of quantum models: measurement correlation, not parameter count

arXiv:2609.14424v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reporting the Fisher geometry of a trained variational quantum model is routine; quoting the shot budget that would establish it is not. Certifying an

CREPES-X: Hierarchical Bearing-Distance-Inertial Direct Cooperative Relative Pose Estimation System

arXiv:2512.24688v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Relative localization is essential for cooperation in autonomous multi-robot systems. Existing approaches either rely on shared environmental featur

agentsarxiv-cs-ro

DreamSat-Bench: Development and Initial Testing of a Testbed for AI-Based Pose Estimation from 3D Reconstruction

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2609.14183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents the development and initial testing of DreamSat-Bench, a modular rendezvous and proximity operation testbed designed to benchmark AI

Event-Native Symbolic-Temporal Spike Encoding Framework for Heterogeneous Cyber Streams

arXiv:2609.15772v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have shown promise for sparse, event-driven computation through stateful processing that is naturally compatible with l

researcharxiv-cs-ai

Language-Guided Representation Learning for Robust Cross-Sensor Material Recognition

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2609.14783v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots need touch to manipulate objects safely and reliably, as many properties, such as softness, texture, and contact stability, are hard to infer f

Real-World Deployment and Performance Characterisation of Fog-Based Deep Learning for Cold-Chain Temperature Prediction over LoRaWAN

arXiv:2609.14036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fresh fruits and vegetables (FFVs) are highly perishable, and cold-chain breaks contribute significantly to global food waste. While Machine Learning

agentsarxiv-cs-lg

Syn2Logic: End-to-End Neuromorphic Design Automation

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai

arXiv:2608.25536v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this work, we propose a view on electronic Neuromorphic Design Automation (eNDA), which we see as a design automation flow that bridges com

Affective Agent: On-Device Personalized Intervention Reasoning for Wearable Systems

arXiv:2609.12322v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Affective computing has advanced wearable state inference, but on-device reasoning about whether, when, and how to intervene remains challenging. We p

DeepSeek engineer relections on RSI - burying my talent to yesterday

model-releasesr-localllama

Note - This is translated from the actual blog link right at the bottom. A few days ago, DeepSeek v4.1 was released. It raised the ability of small models to a new level. AI is improving much faster t

Fast BIB simulation at a future Muon Collider with generative machine learning

arXiv:2609.12054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Beam-induced background (BIB) from muon decay products will be an overwhelming and unavoidable background at a future Muon Collider. In order to devel

Hyperion: An AI-powered HPC cluster for sciences and humanities research that utilizes ML for predicting job turnaround time

arXiv:2609.11946v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hyperion is an innovative high-performance computing (HPC) cluster developed for researchers in both science and humanities disciplines at the Univers

ROCm 7.2.1 + llama.cpp on mixed Vega GPUs (gfx900 Vega64 + gfx906 MI50) — got 52-57 tok/s on Gemma 3 27B Q4 with patched rocBLAS payloads [repo + Dockerfile]

I'm documenting a reproducible setup for running current llama.cpp on a mixed AMD Vega system with both: Radeon RX Vega 64 / Vega10 / gfx900 (8GB HBM2) Radeon Instinct MI50 (Vega20) / gfx906 (16GB HBM

13 Sept 2026

Detecting hallucinations in local models without eating VRAM: What we learned testing 1.5B to 120B models

Hey everyone, If you run local models via Ollama in production or personal projects, you've probably run into the hallucination problem: how do you know when a model is hallucinating without burning e

11 Sept 2026

Generative Replay Mitigates Sample Starvation in Quantum Architecture Search

arXiv:2609.11248v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) can automate quantum architecture search, but its scalability is limited when useful circuit trajectories become rare in t

local-aiarxiv-cs-lg

11 Sept 2026

Temporal and Multimodal Deep Learning for Cyberattack Detection in LEO Satellite Systems

arXiv:2609.10746v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing reliance on Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems has increased the need for intelligent methods capable of detecting cybe

11 Sept 2026

AccelMPC: High-Rate, Low-Power FPGA-Accelerated Model Predictive Control for Tiny Drones

arXiv:2609.09380v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unlocking the potential of tiny aerial robots requires order of magnitude improvements in the performance of embedded edge control. In particular, altho

researcharxiv-cs-ro

10 Sept 2026

Fine-Tuning a KV Cache Concatenation-Aware Model or Recomputing KV Caches? Why Not Both?