Chroma's Foundation is a memory layer that operates through a swarm of agents modifying shared state, ingesting coding agent traces and company data to build a durable record and index.
Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world
Anthropic has introduced a set of standardized drivers designed to let AI agents easily interface with and control arbitrary devices. The Model Harness Standard is a way for scientists to streamline the arduous process of creating custom software integrations needed to get disparate components of an experiment working in concert. It provides a common interface and format for data sharing between these devices. The system could reduce weeks or months of exact experimental setup down to hours or minutes.
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck
Hugging Face has unveiled a cute little duck-like robot called the Microduck that will ship before Christmas. The 25-centimeter-tall open-source robot will sell for $399. It can waddle, pick up objects up to 800 grams with its beak, get up when it falls, crouch, and even roller skate. The robot's behaviors can be trained in simulation and then directly deployed on the robot. The SDK, simulation, and full RL training stack are available on GitHub.
User testing does not need to be expensive or complicated. Watch a few real users complete realistic tasks, then fix the friction their behavior reveals.