Saturday, 14 March 2026

Housekeeping for Hallions

Housekeeping for Hallions is a guide to living with less effort and more intent. The word hallion is of unknown origin; in Ireland the term refers to an affable character who may be slightly chaotic, yet undeniably charming. Hallions are not given to depending on what other people think. They may be dishevelled or disorganised and live in a state of disorder by choice -- kind to nearly everyone, content to live alone up a long lane with nearly nothing but ideally without a cross bank.

Des Donnelly is an Irish poet born, raised, and residing in Co Tyrone. His writing life has moved between the factual, the technical, and the imaginative -- each mode sharpening his attention to how language stores meaning, distorts it, and occasionally breaks under its own weight. His work is guided by a framework he calls creative gravity: the archive is not a collection but a curvature, where each piece alters the shape of the whole and nothing is ever wasted.

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Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Giddy Up Tidy Up

California robotics startup Figure AI has released a striking new demo of its Figure 03 humanoid robot - powered by the proprietary Helix 02 vision-language-action AI - autonomously tidying an entire living room without any human intervention or task-specific coding.

In the 4K footage, the robot performs a series of complex, interlinked tasks including spraying and wiping surfaces, tossing pillows back onto a sofa, and organising scattered toys Humanoids Daily - all at human pace. What makes this significant is how it learns: Helix 02 did not require new algorithms or specialised programming for the task, instead learning strategies from examples and applying them across different situations.

https://www.figure.ai/