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Mostly posting about robots. currently AI @agilityrobotics prev embodied AI @AIatMeta, @NVIDIAAI. All views my own.

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Always important to remember that a lot of these robots are "faking" the humanlike motions -- its a property of how they're trained not an inherent property of the hardware. They're actually capable of way weirder stuff and way faster motions.

Always important to remember that a lot of these robots are "faking" the humanlike motions -- its a property of how they're trained not an inherent property of the hardware. They're actually capable of way weirder stuff and way faster motions.

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This is looking amazing

This is looking amazing

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Berry pickup from Kyber Labs Robot hands that can pick up fragile objects quickly will be important to solving long-tail of robotics problems not currently automated

Berry pickup from Kyber Labs Robot hands that can pick up fragile objects quickly will be important to solving long-tail of robotics problems not currently automated

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It seems so simple to humans: "First watch the video with a red border, then pick up and place the same cube twice." And yet it's very difficult for policies as they are now. Learn more about benchmarking for robot memory ->

It seems so simple to humans: "First watch the video with a red border, then pick up and place the same cube twice." And yet it's very difficult for policies as they are now. Learn more about benchmarking for robot memory ->

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Predicting how the environment changes over time is a key task in robotics, enabling all kinds of downstream tasks. Trace Anything is a very interesting look at how you can train models which predict the trajectory each point will take in the future -- you can use this for robot manipulation, video prediction, and more. Learn more ->

Predicting how the environment changes over time is a key task in robotics, enabling all kinds of downstream tasks. Trace Anything is a very interesting look at how you can train models which predict the trajectory each point will take in the future -- you can use this for robot manipulation, video prediction, and more. Learn more ->

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A favorite of the new robot designs from Fourier -- the gr3 is soft(ish) and friendly

A favorite of the new robot designs from Fourier -- the gr3 is soft(ish) and friendly

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Pantograph robot building with jenga blocks. Focusing on RL is a great and fairly unique strategy

Pantograph robot building with jenga blocks. Focusing on RL is a great and fairly unique strategy

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Watching the agibot x2 at the hackathon yesterday. I think there are a few extra degrees of freedom over the unitree g1 and you can really see it in the motion

Watching the agibot x2 at the hackathon yesterday. I think there are a few extra degrees of freedom over the unitree g1 and you can really see it in the motion

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These crazy videos of Chinese delivery robots from Neolix (and maybe similar companies) are my new favorite thing

These crazy videos of Chinese delivery robots from Neolix (and maybe similar companies) are my new favorite thing

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Some random thoughts reading through the new RobbyAnt VLA paper: - 20,000 hours of data across 9 robots!! - damn, Chinese companies are going to trivially outscale the American ones on real robot data - It's really cool they train on depth; it means they can handle transparent objects really well for example - You can never tell how good these models are without trying them, since everyone trains on different robots, but from the results they show it does seem to clean up - cross embodiment scaling laws are really cool - if you have lots of robots do you need human video??

Some random thoughts reading through the new RobbyAnt VLA paper: - 20,000 hours of data across 9 robots!! - damn, Chinese companies are going to trivially outscale the American ones on real robot data - It's really cool they train on depth; it means they can handle transparent objects really well for example - You can never tell how good these models are without trying them, since everyone trains on different robots, but from the results they show it does seem to clean up - cross embodiment scaling laws are really cool - if you have lots of robots do you need human video??

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Learn about how to make humanoid robot teleoperation work for humanoid *mobile* manipulation in this podcast. Really cool work by Siyuan Huang and yixuan_li!

Learn about how to make humanoid robot teleoperation work for humanoid mobile manipulation in this podcast. Really cool work by Siyuan Huang and yixuan_li!

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ManiFeel is a benchmark for contact-rich manipulation tasks. Force- and tactile-based tasks with occlusions and partially-observable state are going to be crucial for true general purpose robotics. Website:

ManiFeel is a benchmark for contact-rich manipulation tasks. Force- and tactile-based tasks with occlusions and partially-observable state are going to be crucial for true general purpose robotics. Website:

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Cotton picking robot with 108 arms

Cotton picking robot with 108 arms

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The best humanoid robotics in the world from 10 years ago at the Darpa grand challenge. Its amazing how fast this has changed; imagine what this will be like in 10 years

The best humanoid robotics in the world from 10 years ago at the Darpa grand challenge. Its amazing how fast this has changed; imagine what this will be like in 10 years

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1x neo gamma vacuuming at GTC

1x neo gamma vacuuming at GTC

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Easily the most impressive uncut autonomous video I've ever seen, from Physical Intelligence

Easily the most impressive uncut autonomous video I've ever seen, from Physical Intelligence

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Reach the banana hanging from the ceiling

Reach the banana hanging from the ceiling

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This is the first time that I have seen Skild doing live demos in public! Demonstrating neural nets for precision manufacturing

This is the first time that I have seen Skild doing live demos in public! Demonstrating neural nets for precision manufacturing

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It is really incredible what these robots can do now from omnixtreme - new RoboPapers episode tomorrow

It is really incredible what these robots can do now from omnixtreme - new RoboPapers episode tomorrow

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Still one of my favorite robotics use cases: Peanut Robotics cleaning hotels and workplaces autonomously. Need a home version of this guy

Still one of my favorite robotics use cases: Peanut Robotics cleaning hotels and workplaces autonomously. Need a home version of this guy

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The best way to get robust, high-quality robot performance is through reinforcement learning; but RL in either the real world or a traditional simulation has lots of limitations. Instead, Jiazhi Yang in RISE does RL in a compositional world model. Learn more ->

The best way to get robust, high-quality robot performance is through reinforcement learning; but RL in either the real world or a traditional simulation has lots of limitations. Instead, Jiazhi Yang in RISE does RL in a compositional world model. Learn more ->

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Its funny how even with the wonderfully dynamic unitree g1, these actions are slow. Perception-> action and the embodiment gap are the big things slowing down robotics. This is the part of the video where they start manipulating stuff

Its funny how even with the wonderfully dynamic unitree g1, these actions are slow. Perception-> action and the embodiment gap are the big things slowing down robotics. This is the part of the video where they start manipulating stuff

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Cool look at a fleet of Apollo 2 robots doing a variety of pick and place tasks. Actually this whole video showed quite a wide range of uses for their robot.

Cool look at a fleet of Apollo 2 robots doing a variety of pick and place tasks. Actually this whole video showed quite a wide range of uses for their robot.

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One of my favorite works in the "robot learning from human videos" space that I have seen lately. This is because it offers a really coherent and unique way to represent robot skills without a lot of the downsides we see from estimation-based approaches.

One of my favorite works in the "robot learning from human videos" space that I have seen lately. This is because it offers a really coherent and unique way to represent robot skills without a lot of the downsides we see from estimation-based approaches.

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So basically openai will release this guy, if the rumors are right -- a friendly little character you can chat with. But also it reads your email and can order things online and is powered by gpt instead of qwen This is Reachy Mini by HuggingFace. Would you get one

So basically openai will release this guy, if the rumors are right -- a friendly little character you can chat with. But also it reads your email and can order things online and is powered by gpt instead of qwen This is Reachy Mini by HuggingFace. Would you get one

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This is what I want to see from a hand video, damn

This is what I want to see from a hand video, damn

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Its cool to see this robot stand up

Its cool to see this robot stand up

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Still one of the top "oh wait this might really work" kind of moments for me

Still one of the top "oh wait this might really work" kind of moments for me

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The kind of things you can do with compliant/force aware teleop i guess. Another cool video of a highly constrained pick.

The kind of things you can do with compliant/force aware teleop i guess. Another cool video of a highly constrained pick.

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The future of robot butlers starts with mobile manipulation. We’re announcing the NeurIPS 2023 Open-Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation Challenge! - Full robot stack ✅ - Parallel sim and real evaluation ✅ - No robot required ✅👀

The future of robot butlers starts with mobile manipulation. We’re announcing the NeurIPS 2023 Open-Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation Challenge! - Full robot stack ✅ - Parallel sim and real evaluation ✅ - No robot required ✅👀

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This clip from Figure shows what's so exciting about end to end applications. Handling a messy, unstructured feed of objects like this would be very difficult to scale with traditional methods

This clip from Figure shows what's so exciting about end to end applications. Handling a messy, unstructured feed of objects like this would be very difficult to scale with traditional methods

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Gears are the "muscles" of robotics; but with so many AI/ML folks getting into robotics now, you may not know what people mean when they say cycloid/strain wave/planetary gear, and, more importantly why they matter What are the advantages and disadvantages? What actually ARE these things? I made this over the weekend to try to help provide an intuition: Probably has some mistakes as I am no mechanical engineer but I think it's useful

Gears are the "muscles" of robotics; but with so many AI/ML folks getting into robotics now, you may not know what people mean when they say cycloid/strain wave/planetary gear, and, more importantly why they matter What are the advantages and disadvantages? What actually ARE these things? I made this over the weekend to try to help provide an intuition: Probably has some mistakes as I am no mechanical engineer but I think it's useful

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