Hardware is a big constraint in robotics, that's why... we don't think the answer will be increasingly larger VLM models as action backbones. We tried to solve that issue with WorldDiT, which is at the pareto frontier for size-performance. Now I want to see how far we can scale it without losing this tradeoff. Here's a simulation demo.show more

Qualia has been selected for the Google DeepMind Robotics... Program. We train embodied models that put a robot on a real manual task and make it work, on the floor, not in a demo. Foundation models and reasoning are where robotics is heading, and doing that work alongside DeepMind, who are pushing this frontier, is exactly where we want to be. If you are a company looking to see how a new generation of robots can help your manual tasks, contact us at [email protected] More soonshow more

Two months ago, at an RSS workshop panel, I... said that general real2sim reconstruction is still far from solved, especially for articulated objects, which will be a major bottleneck for robotics. But now that has totally changed with Astra; using several photos as input, we can easily reconstruct vivid articulated scenes. The result is so impressive! Excited to see how it will shift the paradigm of real2sim2real and agentic learning for robotics and humanoids.show more

AI’s next frontier is Spatial Intelligence, a technology that... will turn seeing into reasoning, perception into action, and imagination into creation. But what is it? Why does it matter? How do we build it? And how can we use it? Today, I want to share with you my thoughts on building and using world models to unlock spatial intelligence in this essay below. 1/nshow more

It can be hard to visualize how big Interceptor... 015 is, so here's a bagel for scale. *we tried to get a banana but couldn’t find one following tropical storm Rafael.show more

we like it as long as you're having fun... 🥰 💥 : how do you think the fans will react? 🍒 : i don't think they will like it 💥 : why is that? 🍒 : they don't want to see me having a hard time 🍒 : but i'm not struggling at all, guys! i can run like this anytime!! [speeds up] 🏃‍♂️show more

Dear Africans. I know you think we are cowards.... You think we have allowed Mnangagwa to rule with impunity. This is is what we face. We have been facing this for the past 45 years. The problem is, we have been doing it peacefully but met with live bullets. SADC & AU are OK with us being killed. A time will come when we are going to pick matchets and guns and chop each other like what happened in Rwanda. SADC and AU will condemn us as barbarians. Millions of us have left our country not because we desire to be in your countries. We cannot live under this perpetual suffocation. Now we see that South Africans are tired of us. We don't want to be in your countries. We want to be in Zimbabwe. We have asked your presidents to restrain this rabid junta led by Mnangagwa but none of them has tried. We tried elections and we all saw what happened. We are at the end of out wits. and about to snap. If any of you can convince your governments to give us guns and a forest, you will see that we are not cowards.show more

Q: What was the reason for starting Oner? The... main reason we chose to start him is that Oner plays a pivotal role during team fights. That's why we decided to put him in. However, as for today's overall performance... I don't think it was very satisfactory.show more

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump: They have suffered a military defeat, and... now we will open the Strait with or without them, but it will be open. We are going to open the Strait, as they call it, and I think it will happen fairly quickly, and if not, we will be able to finish it one way or another. Everything is going well. No nuclear weapon, number one. I think it has already been regime change—we never had that as a criteria. No nuclear weapon—that is 99% of it. We have other countries coming up to help with the Strait of Hormuz. We will have that open fairly soon.show more

[ ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE RORIIPUPPER ARKNIGHTS X PERSONA 3... R COLLAB GLOBAL GIVEAWAY ] Scarf and I are months ahead of schedule, but that's because we want the event to be special and fun. Here is a preview of a prototype of the site that we will be using for the Arknights x Persona3R giveaway that we are going to hold. The instructions for how to join the giveaway are not final and may be changed later as we may add more things to give away and better requirements to prevent cheaters as much as we can. Here is also a preview of the raffle/roulette animation that will decide the winners for the giveaway. I know we're six months early, however we're just so hyped and we have a lot of ideas art and animation wise for it. For now, this is what we can show y'all.show more

I put a lens after the single slit and... see how aperture size affects the focusing of light, and we can observe that a larger aperture can achieve a better focus. That got me thinking, if we want to pinpoint a problem, it's better to view it from multiple perspectives. #opticsshow more

lando: “why do you want to do continuous? i’m... half a second off” will: “it's up to you but i can probably make the car quicker if we do laps without DRS now” lando: “my car's not half a second off, is it? my driving's half a second off” will: “ok, we think we can find half a second now. let’s try”show more

Happy #IndieAnimationDay! With that said wanted to share a... few things. First is we will be releasing Port by the Sea in February 2024! I wanted to share how far we've come from the very first clip we shared online. As we get closer to release we will be sharing the trailer & moreshow more

We’ve redesigned our pricing page. You can now see... at a glance which models are included in each plan and how many images you can generate. We want our pricing to be as transparent as possible. Do you think the prices and usage limits are reasonable? Link:show more

"I think negotiating with Putin is not a very... good idea, because, as the Americans said: 'If you want to talk, talk quietly, but keep a big stick in your hand.' We don't have a big stick. We can only talk quietly." The Belgian Prime Minister complained that Europe "doesn't have a big stick".show more

NEED SUGGESTIONS for community, do drop in your suggestions😊... We are trying to improve the readability of articles. At present most of the blog DSA sites have lengthy articles which you read via scrolling. It looks daunting when you start with it. At TakeUforward, we are trying to change this, and help out users with an easier way to navigate and read. We want the logic to be something as you can see in the video.. the design is just a rough one, and is no where close to what we want it to be. The typical article will have problem statement, examples, followed by this sticky bar, which helps us to navigate, and ease out reading.. You can feel free to suggest more changes we can do, or some design recommendations. We can hire someone for this, but I will prefer recommendations from people who use it rather than someone who does not. RT for good Karma ♥️show more

This election is the last chance to save West... Bengal. It is the final opportunity to ensure that we will be able to celebrate Saraswati Pujo and Durga Pujo, that we can have a Tulsi Manch in our homes, that we will be able to live peacefully, that we will not be forced to wear a burqa, and that we will not be forced to speak Urdu!!show more

I don't think we can comprehend what's coming. Starship... progress may feel more gradual than we'd like at times, but SpaceX is shifting to a scale that is difficult to wrap your head around. The change once we start seeing multi-Starship launches per day will be LUDICROUS! 🚀show more