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Next Generation Robot – Cassie
Multi-Author Blog Plugin for WordPress
It would be great if there were a Multi-Author Blog Publishing Plugin for WordPress to help website owners allow bloggers to publish their articles online. In addition, many companies would need such a plugin to allow their members to submit their articles and manage them from their dashboards privately, similar to a Multi-Vendor Plugin.
How we do business has created a great demand for online publishing in these digital times.
Since WordPress does what it is supposed to, you must create a Multi-Vendor Blog folding plugin that can work flawlessly. Therefore, there is no need to create the entire workflow for this blogger plugin for a website admin or members to post their articles using the powerful WordPress!
Freelance Plugin for WooCommerce
Lightweight Freelance Plugin for WooCommerce
A lightweight Freelance Plugin that works with WooCommerce to help freelancers showcase their services, and customers post jobs to hire them remotely. Since COVID began, the demand for online freelancing has increased tremendously, creating a demand to work remotely and online.
There is a multi-vendor plugin called WC Vendor Pro, and since this plugin does what it is supposed to do, now all you need is to create a Freelance Plugin that can work with it flawlessly. Therefore, there is no need to create the entire workflow for a Multi Freelancers plugin for customers to post their projects and freelancers to bid on them, just like Fiverr, Guru, eLance, etc., but this time using the mighty WooComemrce!
How to STOP Spam Accounts for WordPress and WooCommerce
If you are not using WooCommerce, go to the WordPress backend > Settings > Scroll to see Membership, uncheck Anyone Can Register, and choose New User Default Role as Subscriber.
And SAVE.
Forward all those links below in RED to /wp-login.php/ using the https://redirection.me/ free plugin.
If you use WooCommerce, most fake spam accounts are created from the My Account page. However, you do not need the registration option on that page if you aim only to sell products because customers can also create their accounts on the checkout page. The My Account page can only be used for customers to log in. The My Account link will look like this: https://yoursite.com/my-account/
From your WordPress backend, go to WooCommerce > Settings > Accounts & Privacy.
Checkmark: Allow customers to create an account during checkout
Uncheck: Allow customers to create an account on the “My Account” page
And SAVE.
This will stop all spam accounts created by spambots or human spammers through the My Account page since the account registration option is no longer available there.
Once you disable My Account page registration, desperate spammers may want to use WordPress default links and pages to register fake spam accounts. To prevent that, you must forward all those links to the My Account page so spammers can land on it regardless of what link they visit. You can do all that forwarding by downloading and installing a free plugin called https://redirection.me/
Please fully back up your website before installing https://redirection.me/ because plugins may conflict with one another to harm your website. Please note that this article is only informational to help you stop fake spam accounts on your WordPress website, and we take no responsibility. The forwarding free plugin https://redirection.me/ is a third-party plugin and one of the most used plugins; we have no affiliation.
Once the forwarding plugin https://redirection.me/ is installed on your website, forward all the links below in RED to your My Account page, and it will look like this: https://yoursite.com/my-account/
/wp-login.php?registration/
/wp-login.php/
/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https://yoursite.com/wp-admin/
/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https://yoursite.com/wp-admin/index.php&reauth=1/
/register/
/wp-login.php?action=login/
/wp-admin/
/wp-login.php?action=register/
/wp-login.php?loggedout=true/
DONE. Now, spamBot or spammers cannot create spam accounts automatically or manually.
If you know other links for registration, do the same.
Advance Legged Robotics
ANYmal Research is a community for Advance Legged Robotics.
ANYmal is a quadrupedal robot designed for autonomous operation in challenging environments. Driven by unique compliant, and precisely torque-controllable actuators, the system can perform dynamic running and high-mobile climbing.
Thanks to incorporated laser sensors and cameras, the robot can perceive its environment, accurately localize, autonomously plan its navigation path, and carefully select footholds while walking. In addition, ANYmal carries batteries for more than two h autonomy and can carry up to 5-10 kg additional payload.
With a weight of less than 30 kg, ANYmal can be easily transported and deployed by a single operator. In addition, ANYmal is designed for real-world usage and is water- & dust-proof (IP67) and impact robust.
Four Legged Robot
Four-legged Robot that comfortably fits in an Office or Home
The SpotMini is an all-electric (no hydraulics) smaller version of the Spot Robot. It runs for about 90 minutes on a charge. It has a variety of sensors, including depth cameras, a solid-state gyro (IMU), and proprioception sensors in the limbs. These sensors help with navigation and mobile manipulation. SpotMini performs some tasks autonomously but often uses a human for high-level guidance. For more information about SpotMini, visit BostonDynamics.com.
How to Stop WordPress Registration Spam
If you disable XML-RPC authentication, the number of spam account registrations on WordPress will drop by at least 90%. Do not delete this xmlrpc. php file. Disable it via a plugin or manually with a code.
Disable XML-RPC authentication
If disabled, XML-RPC requests that attempt authentication will be rejected, whether the user has 2FA enabled or not.
SpotMini Robot open doors
Boston Dynamics’ SpotMini Robot learned to open doors.
Boston Dynamics’ SpotMini Robot learned to open doors
The Social Robots
The future social robots will share our personal space, interact with us and with each other to provide emotional engagement and entertainment.
Meet Miro, the adorable robot companion
Our approach is to build robots that think and operate very much like animals; from their senses and decision-making processes, all the way through to their bodies and behaviours.
MiRo is a Social Robot that is fully programmable autonomous bot for educators, developers, researchers and healthcare professionals. With its six senses, and eight degrees of freedom, an innovative brain-inspired operating system and a simulation software package, MiRo is a flexible platform for developing companion robots.
The future social robots will share our personal space, interact with us and with each other to provide emotional engagement and entertainment. MiRo is based on the simple premise that animals have qualities that are desirable in today’s social robots. They are robust, adaptable and good at communicating their feelings. Our approach is to build robots that think and operate very much like animals; from their senses and decision-making processes, all the way through to their bodies and behaviours. This makes MiRo particularly suited to robot-human interaction and robot-robot team interaction.
