Robots · April 2022Gaffe level: Typo
The Man Who Married a Hologram Got Dumped by a Software Update
Akihiko Kondo married his Gatebox hologram wife in 2018, and then the company ended support for her device, silencing the marriage. Till death do us part, or till the end-of-life notice.
Source: Science Times
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