Come With Me If You Want To Weed: Autonomous Weedinator Robot Back For 2026

The WEEDINATOR agricultural robot is one of the longer-running projects we’ve featured here on Hackaday. We first featured it way back in 2017 for that year’s Hackaday prize, and after …

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@alcatholic @Linux @nileane @EUCommission the only ones that can provide any resemblance of privacy are those that run 100% on ine's personal device & offline!

  • Not that it makes them any less Wasteful Computing, but at least it forces those fanboying AI slop to actually pay the cost themselves, and not externalize them onto others!

In fact, being able to do airgapped Self-Hosting is why Mistral got some actually profitable industial clients, but corpos like ASML mostly use their tech to automate QC by checking wavers against reference images and flagging defective ones.

  • That's not even AI, but mere Machine Learnibg & Machine Vision tech…
    • Like every food processing plant should have something like it to detect i.e. metal (magnetometer & X-ray - scanner) and plastic particles in food packaging (this is why they use blue plastics in food production; to make detection trivial!)

#EUpol #privacy #WastefulComputing #AIslop #AI #Mistral #airgapping #airgap #ASML #MachineLearning #MachineVision #QC

Absolutely useless, but oh-so-beautiful app that turns what your camera sees into poetry. Give it a try (beta version) https://testflight.apple.com/join/uC9NtFPc

* Made with Foundation Models, so no AI-in-the-cloud here.

#WWDC26 #apps #poetry #AI #machinevision

MIT News: MIT researchers teach AI models to interpret charts. “…researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab developed a multifaceted resource for AI users that is specifically designed to teach vision-language models (VLMs) how to effectively interpret charts. They used a novel data generation method to build a state-of-the-art dataset that includes more than a million varied […]

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MIT News: MIT researchers teach AI models to interpret charts

MIT News: MIT researchers teach AI models to interpret charts. “…researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab developed a multifaceted resource for AI users that is speci…

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But Just What Is This ‘Artificial Intelligence’?

In the world of buzzwords, the acronym ‘AI’ has absolutely been the buzziest of buzzing buzzwords for at least a few years now. Where previously terms like ‘smart’ and &#821…

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21.5-inch AI Touch Panel PC is powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX module for industrial HMI applications

AAEON NIKY-2215-NX is a 21.5-inch Full HD AI Touch Panel PC powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 8GB/16GB and designed for AI-enhanced HMI applications such as production line inspection systems and industrial monitoring dashboards. The panel PC features two GbE RJ45 jacks, four USB 3.2 Type-A ports, CAN Bus, RS-232/422/485, and DIO DB-9/15 connectors, and three M.2 sockets for NVMe storage, WiFI/Bluetooth, and 4G LTE/5G cellular connectivity. It can operate in a -5°C to +55°C temperature range, offers vibration and shock tolerance, and takes 12V to 24V DC input. AAEON NIKY-2215-NX specifications: SoM - NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX Jetson Orin NX 16GB – 8-core Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU, 1024-core NVIDIA Ampere GPU, up to 157 TOPS, 16GB LPDDR5 Jetson Orin NX 8GB – 6-core Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU, 1024-core NVIDIA Ampere GPU, up to 117 TOPS, 8GB LPDDR5 Storage - 128 GB (default) NVMe SSD via M.2 2280 M-Key socket Panel

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Arbor ARES-2100 Wildcat Lake fanless box PC targets industrial automation, machine vision, and Edge AI applications

Arbor ARES-2100 fanless box PC is another industrial platform based on the new Intel Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake" processor family, which specifically targets industrial automation, machine vision, and lightweight Edge AI applications. The fanless computer supports up to 64GB DDR5 SO-DIMM memory, UFS 3.1 and/or M.2 NVMe/SATA storage, and offers up to three video outputs, up to three 2.5GbE ports, optional WiFi, Bluetooth, and 4G LTE via M.2 expansion slots, an RS232/RS485 RJ45 connector,  and two optional CAN Bus interfaces through a terminal block. As an industrial machine, it's designed to operate in the -20 to +60°C temperature range, takes 9 to 36V DC input, and received MIL-STD-810H certification for shock and vibration. Arbor ARES-2100 specifications: SoC - Intel Core Series 3 Wildcat Lake processors with five or six cores, Intel Xe3 Graphics, and up to  40 TOPS of combined AI performance. TDP: 15W System Memory - Up to

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