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Mostly posting about robots. currently AI @agilityrobotics prev embodied AI @AIatMeta, @NVIDIAAI. All views my own. writing: https://t.co/iNLA4djfZo

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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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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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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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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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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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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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"A miniature Wukong holding a stick in his hand sprints across a table surface for 3 seconds, then jumps into the air, and swings his right arm downward during landing. The camera begins with a close-up of his face, then steadily follows the character while gradually zooming out. When the monkey leaps into the air, at the highest point of the jump, the motion pauses for a few seconds. The camera circles around the character for 360 degrees, and slowly ascends, before the action resumes." From Genesis

"A miniature Wukong holding a stick in his hand sprints across a table surface for 3 seconds, then jumps into the air, and swings his right arm downward during landing. The camera begins with a close-up of his face, then steadily follows the character while gradually zooming out. When the monkey leaps into the air, at the highest point of the jump, the motion pauses for a few seconds. The camera circles around the character for 360 degrees, and slowly ascends, before the action resumes." From Genesis

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Its cool to see this robot stand up

Its cool to see this robot stand up

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Learning reliable manipulation skills for robots is probably the single most important thing for the field to accomplish. Generalist models are usually not reliable enough to achieve the ~100% reliability we really want. But Wenli Xiao has a recipe for achieving this, and for using the data to improve the base model too. Learn more here in the RoboPapers podcast with Michael Cho - Rbt/Acc ->

Learning reliable manipulation skills for robots is probably the single most important thing for the field to accomplish. Generalist models are usually not reliable enough to achieve the ~100% reliability we really want. But Wenli Xiao has a recipe for achieving this, and for using the data to improve the base model too. Learn more here in the RoboPapers podcast with Michael Cho - Rbt/Acc ->

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Open-source VLA from Galaxea Dynamics shown on a wide range of environments and with different objects, and all running on their cheap off the shelf hardware. Really great contribution to the community.

Open-source VLA from Galaxea Dynamics shown on a wide range of environments and with different objects, and all running on their cheap off the shelf hardware. Really great contribution to the community.

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Low cost wheeled platforms make sense for many household tasks even if they aren't capable of things like going up or down stairs

Low cost wheeled platforms make sense for many household tasks even if they aren't capable of things like going up or down stairs

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Training a Whole-Body Control Foundation Model -- new work from my team at Agility Robotics A neural network for controlling our humanoid robots which is robust to disturbances, can handle heavy objects, and is a powerful platform for learning new whole-body skills learn more in our blog post ->

Training a Whole-Body Control Foundation Model -- new work from my team at Agility Robotics A neural network for controlling our humanoid robots which is robust to disturbances, can handle heavy objects, and is a powerful platform for learning new whole-body skills learn more in our blog post ->

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It's real and just ran the whole time Jason Ma was giving a talk. Dynasaur folding t-shirts autonomously at Actuate

It's real and just ran the whole time Jason Ma was giving a talk. Dynasaur folding t-shirts autonomously at Actuate

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I'd like to introduce what I've been working on the last few months at Hello Robot: Stretch AI, a set of open-source tools for language-guided autonomy, exploration, navigation, and learning from demonstration. The goal is to allow researchers and developers to quickly build and deploy AI-enabled home robot applications. A thread ->

I'd like to introduce what I've been working on the last few months at Hello Robot: Stretch AI, a set of open-source tools for language-guided autonomy, exploration, navigation, and learning from demonstration. The goal is to allow researchers and developers to quickly build and deploy AI-enabled home robot applications. A thread ->

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Everyone's forgetting the original running robot from Agility Robotics

Everyone's forgetting the original running robot from Agility Robotics

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