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Humane AI Pin

The Humane AI Pin was a screenless wearable assistant that projected text onto the user's palm; launched in 2024, it flopped and HP shut it down in 2025.

Humane Inc.

Humane Inc. was an American consumer technology company founded by former Apple executives Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, known for the AI Pin, a screenless AI wearable.

Humanetics

Humanetics, based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, is a safety-engineering company that designs and manufactures crash test dummies, simulation software models, calibration equipment, and active-safety test systems.

HumanEva

HumanEva is a pair of computer-vision datasets with synchronized multi-view video and 3D motion capture, created at Brown University in 2006 to benchmark human pose estimation and tracking.

HumanEval

HumanEval is a benchmark of 164 hand-written Python programming problems, released by OpenAI in 2021 alongside Codex, measuring code generation by running outputs against unit tests.

HumanEval-X

HumanEval-X is a multilingual code-generation benchmark of 820 human-crafted programming problems in Python, C++, Java, JavaScript, and Go, built by the CodeGeeX team to extend HumanEval.

Humanitarian demining

Humanitarian demining is the clearance of landmines, explosive remnants of war, and improvised devices for civilians after conflict ends, distinct from military demining, which clears only the lanes troops need.

Humanity's Last Exam

Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) is a benchmark of 2,500 expert-written academic questions launched by the Center for AI Safety and Scale AI in January 2025 to test frontier AI models.

HumanML3D

HumanML3D is a large-scale 3D human motion-language dataset that pairs 14,616 motion-capture sequences from HumanAct12 and AMASS with 44,970 text descriptions, and is the standard benchmark for training and evaluating text-to-motion generation models.

Humanoid robot

A humanoid robot is a robot modeled on the human form, with torso, head, and limbs, built to move through human spaces and use human-scale tools and interfaces.

Humanoid Robotics Project

The Humanoid Robotics Project (HRP) was a five-year Japanese government program under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, running from fiscal 1998 to 2002 to develop humanoid robots.

Humayun's Tomb (مقبره همایون)

Humayun's Tomb (مقبره همایون) is the mausoleum of the Mughal emperor Humayun in Delhi, built by his widow Bega Begum in 1569-70 and the first garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent.

Humber Bridge

The Humber Bridge is a road suspension bridge across the Humber Estuary in northern England, linking Hessle with Barton-upon-Humber. Opened in 1981, its 1,410-meter main span was the world's longest until 1998.

Humber Refinery

The Humber Refinery is an oil refinery operated by Phillips 66 at South Killingholme in North Lincolnshire, England, and the only coking refinery in the United Kingdom.

Humboldt Broncos bus crash

The Humboldt Broncos bus crash was a 2018 collision near Armley, Saskatchewan, in which a truck struck the junior hockey team's bus, killing 16 of 29 aboard.

Humboldt W. Leverenz

Humboldt W. Leverenz was an American materials scientist at RCA who developed the phosphors used in fluorescent lamps and early television cathode-ray tube screens, and received the Franklin Institute's Brown Medal in 1954.

Hume EVI

Hume EVI, or Empathic Voice Interface, is a family of speech-native conversational models by Hume AI that measures a user's emotional tone and responds with matching expressiveness in real time.

Hume Highway

The Hume Highway is the main inland road link between Sydney and Melbourne through New South Wales and Victoria, named in 1928 after explorer Hamilton Hume, and fully duplicated by 2013.

Hume-Rothery rules

The Hume-Rothery rules are empirical criteria, formulated by British metallurgist William Hume-Rothery, that predict solid-solution formation in alloys based on atomic size, crystal structure, electronegativity, and valence.

Humectant

A humectant is a hygroscopic substance that attracts and holds water, used in foods, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals; common examples include glycerin, sorbitol, urea, and hyaluronic acid.

Humen Bridge

Humen Bridge (虎门大桥) is a six-lane suspension bridge crossing the Pearl River estuary in Guangdong, China, linking Guangzhou with Dongguan. Opened in 1997, it carries the G9411 expressway.

Humidification

Humidification is the addition of water to a gas, usually air, as vapor or droplets; indoor levels of 30 to 60% relative humidity best serve health and comfort.

Humidifier

A humidifier is a device that adds moisture to indoor air to raise relative humidity, easing dryness, and comes as portable units or whole-house models installed in heating ductwork.

Humidity sensor

A humidity sensor, or hygrometer, is a device that measures water vapor in air, most commonly as relative humidity; about 75% on the market are capacitive.

Hummel (vehicle)

The Hummel was a German self-propelled 15 cm howitzer of World War II, formally the Panzerfeldhaubitze 18M, first used at Kursk in 1943 and serving until the war's end.

Hummer

Hummer, also known as AM General Hummer, is an American vehicle brand of military-derived trucks, sold by GM from 1999 until 2010 and revived as an electric truck in 2020.

Hummer H1

The Hummer H1 is a civilian four-wheel-drive SUV built by AM General from 1992 to 2006 as a version of the military Humvee, marketed as the world's most serious 4×4.

Hummer H2

The Hummer H2 is a full-size SUV built from 2002 to 2009 by AM General under contract for General Motors, a more comfortable Hummer than the military-derived H1.

Hummer H3

The Hummer H3 is a compact SUV that General Motors produced for 2006 through 2010 as the smallest Hummer, its best seller, praised off-road and criticized as slow on pavement.

HuMo

HuMo is an open-source, human-centric video generation framework from ByteDance Research, released in September 2025, that generates controllable videos of people from text, image, and audio inputs.