scriabin - waltz in f minor op. 1 this was the first piece scriabin composed, and he was only 14 when he wrote it. in this you can hear how much he was influenced by chopin in the beginning of his career imagine you're 14 and this talented already

A waltz between human and robot. Walker C1, the First Official Humanoid Robot Representative of the China International Supply Chain Expo, made its first public appearance at the Welcome Banquet with a captivating human-robot waltz. The future is already here. 🤖✨ #UBTECH# #WalkerC1# #HumanoidRobot# #Robotics# #AI# #CISCE#

Nineteen humanoid robots waltzed with human partners in Shanghai this week. The interesting problem isn't the dancing. It's the partner. 🤖 Choreography alone is solvable, a robot executing a fixed sequence on a flat stage is a well-understood control problem. But adding a human changes the category. A partner applies unpredictable forces through the arms and torso, arrives fractionally early or late & shifts weight in ways no script anticipates. To the robot, that's a continuous stream of disturbances it has to reject while staying upright, in sync with music & in position on a crowded stage. Balance under unmodelled contact is the same problem that stops humanoids working in warehouses and homes. Objects shift, floors slip, people bump into things. A stage with a human partner is a rare public test of exactly that. The hardware: Unitree H2, 180 cm, roughly 70 kg, 31 degrees of freedom, leg joints rated to 360 newton-metres, onboard compute scaling to 2,070 TOPS on Nvidia's Jetson AGX Thor. The eyes are cameras. Unitree says the routines ran autonomously in real time. That means no teleoperation & no remote correction, not improvisation. The choreography was learned in advance; what's live is the balance & synchronization. Nineteen machines holding that simultaneously, in front of an audience, with no single failure visible, is the real measurement worth noting here. 📐

🇺🇸 @USAmbUN Mike Waltz: “The Houthis are Tehran’s acolytes. When Iran kidnaps civilians, the Houthis do too. When Iran hides behind human shields, the Houthis do as well. When Iran chants ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to America,’ the Houthis repeat it word for word.”