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Researcher at MIT Media Lab | Creating futures | cyrus.website/info
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Introducing the Anemoia Device, a scent-memory machine that uses generative AI to distill photographs into bespoke fragrances Guided by language models, a dial-based interface, and a custom olfactory formulation system, each image becomes a singular scent composition — a multisensory memory that evokes anemoia: nostal...
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HARD MODE projects have now racked up nearly 3M views across all platforms! Been invited to take some of the best ones to SF this week to showcase at Code with Claude ! Would love to chat to people interested in Hardware x AI. Who should I meet?
One week since HARD MODE: Hardware x AI Hackathon at MIT Media Lab 48H • 200+ hackers • 40+ projects reimagining what happens when AI escapes the screen and takes physical form I led the creation and organisation. Was hard work but worth it - just amazing to see something I had dreamt about come to life and give so m
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I’ve been working on giving an AI a body. The first few videos of my experiments went very viral and have now hit ~15M views. I’ve been working towards a more autonomous system for the agent to teach itself a body language. In the third experiment I setup an initial way to do this. Full write up on my blog:
This AI Is Teaching Itself Body Language
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This AI Is Teaching Itself Body Language
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Is a POAP still the best way to recognise attendance at an IRL thing? What else is out there, especially looking for something friendly for non-crypto native people?
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Remapped the arrow keys and now this thing sings.
New HHKB just came in from 🎌
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When you have an exchange with a bot do you miss the subtleties of human conversation? Could you really accept emojis in the place of emotions? When we simplify we reduce and we know Approximating ≠ same but feels like we’re increasingly accepting and even celebrating new baselines.
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New HHKB just came in from 🎌
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YIL that Prof Trump (the uncle) was advised by Van de Graaff !!! I visited his lab at MIT, sitting in a quasi abandoned space here, disused and gathering dust but alive with memories, machines and many warning signs. Not allowed to share pictures right now, but here’s a glimpse from the past. Hopefully will get auth ...
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Had a visit from Joanie and Juliette (Studio Lemercier)! They opted to sail over to the US from Europe at great personal expense, but massively reduced carbon cost. The European willingness to let inconvenience be the proof of the belief.
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One week since HARD MODE: Hardware x AI Hackathon at MIT Media Lab 48H • 200+ hackers • 40+ projects reimagining what happens when AI escapes the screen and takes physical form I led the creation and organisation. Was hard work but worth it - just amazing to see something I had dreamt about come to life and give so m...
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HARD MODE started from a feeling. I was prototyping hardware faster/better than ever, and I looked around and thought: this is amazing, why isn’t everyone doing this? The most exciting thing about AI for me is how it’s collapsed the gap between imagination and physical reality. Stuff that used to take me weeks or mont...
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If you wave at an AI, can it wave back? in our second encounter, the AI agent started to develop the body vocabulary we had discussed in our first session. Using the neoFORM shape display of 900 individually motorised pins, it began to articulate via motion. I gave it eyes + ears (computer vision + live transcriptio...
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I was conducting research with the yet-to-be-named bot all weekend. Taking a moment to catch my breath and share the beginnings of a vision I call Neuma: A vision for embodied AI and the animating force of the neu era.
Neuma – the new breath
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Neuma – the new breath
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So apparently people launched a token for my embodied AI project that has no name via @bankr and called it neoFORM… 2026 is wild.
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@cyrusclarke X is a bit slow, but it seems people have finally caught on. There's been a coin made for your AI's body NeoFORM and there's been crazy trading volume where you as a creator earn a percent of every buy and sell. You should consider claiming your fees via @bankrbot
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