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How Three Smart-Home Devices Learned to “Talk”

A home experiment turned sensor readings into Discord messages, revealing how prompts can make AI conversations repetitive, strange and sometimes wrong.

Riley Hart·SEP 12, 2026 · 5 min read

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Smartphone on a wooden table displaying a Discord conversation between named smart-home devices.

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ETH Zurich Studies Humanoid Robot Monkey-Bar Traversal

The research task combines thin-structure perception, agile body control, and a safe landing—not a consumer robot release.

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HuRo Turns Human Videos Into Robot Training Data

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