Ankur Deka

NEW: Chinese AI pet translating startup claims it can interpret pets' speech with up to 95% accuracy.

Custom Robo for Gamecube was released on this day in North America, 22 years ago (2004)

If you gave away $126 billion to subsidize free flights between LA and San Francisco at current demand levels, you could fund roughly 150 to 200 years of travel before the money runs out.

Today, India takes a defining step in its civil nuclear journey, advancing the second stage of its nuclear programme. The indigenously designed and built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained criticality. This advanced reactor, capable of producing more fuel than it consumes, reflects the depth of our scientific capability and the strength of our engineering enterprise. It is a decisive step towards harnessing our vast thorium reserves in the third stage of the programme. A proud moment for India. Congratulations to our scientists and engineers.

π, But Make It Fly ✈️ We fine-tuned π0, a VLA model pretrained entirely on manipulators, to fly a drone that picks up objects, navigates through gates, and composes both skills from language commands.

Wild story shared by a user about his uncle. AI can be really helpful sometimes. Credit : Reddit --- My 62-year-old uncle in India: Kidney failure (on dialysis 3x/week) Diabetes Hypertension Stroke 6 years ago Severe migraines ONLY when lying down to sleep Doctors tried: neurologists, nephrologists, brain MRI, blood thinners. Nobody could explain the positional headache pattern. I brought everything to Claude. Over several days: Claude identified the key clue everyone missed, the headaches are positional (lying down triggers them) Pulled research showing 40-57% of dialysis patients have undiagnosed sleep apnea Read his brain MRI report I uploaded, flagged relevant findings other docs overlooked Asked about snoring. Answer: loud snoring for 25 YEARS. Daily afternoon sleeping for 25 YEARS. Calculated STOP-BANG score: 6-7/8 (very high risk) Created a complete consultation brief for the pulmonologist Translated a home care plan into Gujarati (my native language) for family We got the sleep study done. Results were alarming: → Breathing stops 119 times per night → Oxygen drops to 78% (dangerously low) → 47 oxygen desaturations per hour → 28 minutes per night below safe oxygen level We put him on CPAP. Headaches gone. 25 years of loud snoring and daily exhaustion. Every doctor attributed it to "dialysis fatigue" or "age." It was sleep apnea the entire time, potentially causing his hypertension, contributing to his stroke, and definitely causing his headaches. The sleep apnea had been hiding in plain sight for 25 years, in his snoring that our family joked about, in his afternoon naps we thought were normal. Claude didn't just identify the problem. It created a structured diagnostic roadmap, explained which specialist to see first, what tests to request, what questions to ask, picked the right CPAP machine, explained every setting, and even wrote maintenance instructions in Gujarati (my native language). A ₹30,000 CPAP machine solved what years of specialist visits couldn't. AI didn't replace his doctors. But it connected dots across nephrology, neurology, pulmonology, and ENT that no single specialist was doing.

sharing our new project Smash!🏓 We built the first outdoor humanoid table tennis player with fully onboard perception — no MoCap, no external cameras. check the video for details. paper and code on the way!