Robots · August 2015Gaffe level: Typo
HitchBOT Met Its Untimely Demise at the Hands of an Angry Human
HitchBOT hitchhiked across Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands on the kindness of strangers, then lasted barely 300 miles into its US trip before getting destroyed in Philadelphia. Its final selfie was a pile of parts in a ditch.
Source: Fast Company
AI Avatars Translate Speech Into Kenyan Sign Language in Real Time
Kenyan engineer Elly Savatia built Terp360, an AI platform that translates speech into Kenyan Sign Language in real time using 3D avatars, with more than 2,300 signs recorded alongside deaf Kenyans. It won the 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, and the team has released an open dataset of nearly 12,000 sign-language motion sequences.
Source: The Eastleigh Voice