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3 Robots 1 course. ROBOstart: a new course for robotic beginners. Immersive labs with biodegradable hydrogel models Guy's and St Thomas' IMRA Surgical - also on Bluesky Huge thanks to Intuitive Medtronic Digital Surgery MedtronicEU CMR Surgical future dates tba Professor Tony Costello

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@GSTTnhs @IMRASurgical @IntuitiveSurg @TouchSurgery @medtroniceu @CMRSurgical @ProfessorTonyC1 Great way to incorporate early robotic training @RaDiSTCommittee

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@HelenMohan1 @GSTTnhs @IMRASurgical @IntuitiveSurg @TouchSurgery @medtroniceu @CMRSurgical @ProfessorTonyC1 Multiplatform training in action! Super exciting to see 🤩

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@GSTTnhs @IMRASurgical @IntuitiveSurg @TouchSurgery @medtroniceu @CMRSurgical @ProfessorTonyC1 My Favourite

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@GSTTnhs @IMRASurgical @IntuitiveSurg @TouchSurgery @medtroniceu @CMRSurgical @ProfessorTonyC1 💪🏿💪🏿

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@GSTTnhs @IMRASurgical @IntuitiveSurg @TouchSurgery @medtroniceu @CMRSurgical @ProfessorTonyC1 Great Ben 👍👍

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@GSTTnhs @IMRASurgical @IntuitiveSurg @TouchSurgery @medtroniceu @CMRSurgical @ProfessorTonyC1 Looks great!

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@GSTTnhs @IMRASurgical @IntuitiveSurg @TouchSurgery @medtroniceu @CMRSurgical @ProfessorTonyC1 Wow what a set up to teach 👏👏👏👏👏👏

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@GSTTnhs @IntuitiveSurg @TouchSurgery @medtroniceu @CMRSurgical @ProfessorTonyC1 #imrasurgical@ Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust Great educational experience for all. Thank you @benchallacombe

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Robots aren’t just the future — they’re already reshaping our world. At IIT Madras, the new in Robotics, offered under the Department of Engineering Design, is building the brains behind tomorrow’s intelligent machines. From motion planning and control to AI/ML and hands-on labs, this two-year program blends cutting-edge research with real-world industry relevance — powered by a strong robotics faculty team and a legacy of interdisciplinary innovation. Rooted in the success of the Inter-Disciplinary Dual Degree (IDDD) Robotics program, this two-year program brings together expert faculty members and a powerful blend of theory and hands-on learning. From robot design and analysis to motion planning, control systems, and AI/ML, students dive deep into the science and engineering behind next-generation robotic systems. Add immersive lab work and cutting-edge projects, and you have a curriculum that’s as practical as it is pioneering. Manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, and defence — robotics is reshaping them all. This program is about building the minds that will lead to that transformation. If the future runs on robots, it starts here. For more details visit: IIT Madras

Robots aren’t just the future — they’re already reshaping our world. At IIT Madras, the new in Robotics, offered under the Department of Engineering Design, is building the brains behind tomorrow’s intelligent machines. From motion planning and control to AI/ML and hands-on labs, this two-year program blends cutting-edge research with real-world industry relevance — powered by a strong robotics faculty team and a legacy of interdisciplinary innovation. Rooted in the success of the Inter-Disciplinary Dual Degree (IDDD) Robotics program, this two-year program brings together expert faculty members and a powerful blend of theory and hands-on learning. From robot design and analysis to motion planning, control systems, and AI/ML, students dive deep into the science and engineering behind next-generation robotic systems. Add immersive lab work and cutting-edge projects, and you have a curriculum that’s as practical as it is pioneering. Manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, and defence — robotics is reshaping them all. This program is about building the minds that will lead to that transformation. If the future runs on robots, it starts here. For more details visit: IIT Madras

IIT Madras

22,446 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

NYC MAYOR ADAMS GOES ALL IN ON BITCOIN AND CRYPTO🇺🇸 First off, a huge thank you to Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and his team for hosting a truly historic crypto summit at Gracie Mansion. I had the honor of sitting down with the mayor ahead of his speech to discuss deregulation, crypto adoption, and future-forward policy in New York City. This is the same mayor who took his first three paychecks in BTC—and now, he’s doubling down on making NYC a beacon for innovation once again. A special thanks to “Mr. Bored” for helping bring this entire event to life. And of course, massive respect to the 3 million investors I proudly represent through my personal brand Itzjoshuajake, Fomoed, and the Discover family. This next chapter is about YOU—the people. And I’m just grateful to play a role in the conversation. Together, we Make New York City Great Again🇺🇸

Joshua Jake

37,344 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

📢 Our lab has been exploring 3D world models for years — and we’re thrilled to share **PhysTwin**: a milestone that reconstructs object appearance, geometry, and dynamics from just a few seconds of interaction! Led by the amazing Hanxiao Jiang 👉 PhysTwin combines **Gaussian splatting** with **inverse dynamics optimization** based on simple **spring-mass** systems. ⚙️ The result? Real-time, action-conditioned 3D video prediction under novel interactions (i.e., 3D world models). 🔑 A few key takeaways: 1. Having the right structure (e.g., particles/masses) helps navigate the trade-off between sample efficiency, generalization, and broad applicability. 2. Visual foundation models (VFMs) have matured to the point where they can provide rich supervision for world modeling (e.g., tracking, shape completion). 3. Beyond VFMs, many crucial components have come together in recent years: Gaussian splats for rendering, NVIDIA Warp for high-performance simulation, and scene/asset generation from a wide range of labs and companies. The future of 3D world models is looking bright! ✨ 4. The resulting digital twin supports a wide range of downstream applications—especially in data generation and policy evaluation, thanks to its realistic rendering and simulation capabilities. 🎥 All code and data to reproduce the results, along with interactive demos, are available on the website. Check the following visualizations of: (1) observations, (2) reconstructed state/actions, (3) interactive digital twins, and (4) the overlays between real-world robot teleoperation and our model’s open-loop predictions.

📢 Our lab has been exploring 3D world models for years — and we’re thrilled to share PhysTwin: a milestone that reconstructs object appearance, geometry, and dynamics from just a few seconds of interaction! Led by the amazing Hanxiao Jiang 👉 PhysTwin combines Gaussian splatting with inverse dynamics optimization based on simple spring-mass systems. ⚙️ The result? Real-time, action-conditioned 3D video prediction under novel interactions (i.e., 3D world models). 🔑 A few key takeaways: 1. Having the right structure (e.g., particles/masses) helps navigate the trade-off between sample efficiency, generalization, and broad applicability. 2. Visual foundation models (VFMs) have matured to the point where they can provide rich supervision for world modeling (e.g., tracking, shape completion). 3. Beyond VFMs, many crucial components have come together in recent years: Gaussian splats for rendering, NVIDIA Warp for high-performance simulation, and scene/asset generation from a wide range of labs and companies. The future of 3D world models is looking bright! ✨ 4. The resulting digital twin supports a wide range of downstream applications—especially in data generation and policy evaluation, thanks to its realistic rendering and simulation capabilities. 🎥 All code and data to reproduce the results, along with interactive demos, are available on the website. Check the following visualizations of: (1) observations, (2) reconstructed state/actions, (3) interactive digital twins, and (4) the overlays between real-world robot teleoperation and our model’s open-loop predictions.

Yunzhu Li

25,279 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Pikes Peak week is underway. Unplugged Performance teamed up with Tesla Colorado Springs to kick-off our 2023 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb week. With Dark Helmet on display, Tesla owners and future Tesla owners joined our famed racing driver, Randy Pobst, our co-founder Ben Schaffer and the Tesla Colorado Springs staff for an incredible afternoon of interviews and Q&A! Stay tuned all week for daily updates of our practice/qualifying runs, testing and tuning recaps, exclusive interviews and of course, race day! Official GIVEAWAY announcement: if you want to win a track day with Randy Pobst for some hot laps and private instruction in a track-prepped Unplugged Performance Tesla Model 3 Ascension R, just go to and sign up for our newsletter. Huge thanks to Tesla, Randy Pobst, Yokohama Tire, SpaceX

Pikes Peak week is underway. Unplugged Performance teamed up with Tesla Colorado Springs to kick-off our 2023 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb week. With Dark Helmet on display, Tesla owners and future Tesla owners joined our famed racing driver, Randy Pobst, our co-founder Ben Schaffer and the Tesla Colorado Springs staff for an incredible afternoon of interviews and Q&A! Stay tuned all week for daily updates of our practice/qualifying runs, testing and tuning recaps, exclusive interviews and of course, race day! Official GIVEAWAY announcement: if you want to win a track day with Randy Pobst for some hot laps and private instruction in a track-prepped Unplugged Performance Tesla Model 3 Ascension R, just go to and sign up for our newsletter. Huge thanks to Tesla, Randy Pobst, Yokohama Tire, SpaceX

UP

42,780 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren

New short course: Build Long-Context AI Apps with Jamba. Learn about state space models (SSMs), which have emerged as an alternative to transformers! Specifically, Jamba is a hybrid transformer-Mamba architecture that combines strengths of the transformer with ideas from SSMs. This course is built with AI21 Labs and taught by Chen Wang and Chen Almagor. The transformer architecture is computationally expensive when handling very long input contexts. But there's an alternative called Mamba, a selective state space model that can process very long contexts with a much lower computational cost. However, researchers found that the pure Mamba architecture underperforms in understanding the context, and gives lower-quality responses. To overcome this, AI21 developed the Jamba model, which combines Mamba's computational efficiency with the transformer's attention mechanism to help with the output quality. In this course, you’ll learn about how state space models, and Jamba, work. You’ll also learn how to prompt Jamba, use it to process long documents, and build long-context RAG apps. - Learn how Jamba combines transformer and state space model architectures to achieve high performance and quality - Use the AI21 SDK, with an example of prompting over a large 200k-token annual financial report of Nvidia - Use Jamba for tool-calling, with hands-on examples from calling simple arithmetic calculations to a function that returns quarterly company financial reports. - Learn how training for long context is done, and the metrics used for its evaluation - Create a RAG app using the AI21 Conversational RAG tool and build your own RAG pipeline that uses Jamba and LangChain. By the end of this course, you'll learn how to build applications that can handle context as long as an entire book. Please sign up here:

New short course: Build Long-Context AI Apps with Jamba. Learn about state space models (SSMs), which have emerged as an alternative to transformers! Specifically, Jamba is a hybrid transformer-Mamba architecture that combines strengths of the transformer with ideas from SSMs. This course is built with AI21 Labs and taught by Chen Wang and Chen Almagor. The transformer architecture is computationally expensive when handling very long input contexts. But there's an alternative called Mamba, a selective state space model that can process very long contexts with a much lower computational cost. However, researchers found that the pure Mamba architecture underperforms in understanding the context, and gives lower-quality responses. To overcome this, AI21 developed the Jamba model, which combines Mamba's computational efficiency with the transformer's attention mechanism to help with the output quality. In this course, you’ll learn about how state space models, and Jamba, work. You’ll also learn how to prompt Jamba, use it to process long documents, and build long-context RAG apps. - Learn how Jamba combines transformer and state space model architectures to achieve high performance and quality - Use the AI21 SDK, with an example of prompting over a large 200k-token annual financial report of Nvidia - Use Jamba for tool-calling, with hands-on examples from calling simple arithmetic calculations to a function that returns quarterly company financial reports. - Learn how training for long context is done, and the metrics used for its evaluation - Create a RAG app using the AI21 Conversational RAG tool and build your own RAG pipeline that uses Jamba and LangChain. By the end of this course, you'll learn how to build applications that can handle context as long as an entire book. Please sign up here:

Andrew Ng

77,792 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

08. 02. 23 THANK YOU, WAGNER! WE WORK... The training course for war correspondents at the Wagner PMC has been completed. Today Evgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin came to us to take tests and talk about the course program. Despite the fact that our classes were more than educational, cool, informative - I don't even know what epithets to choose, I really liked everything, despite being fully booked these days and pleasantly tired. So, despite all this, the experience of our course will be used to improve the program, PMC Wagner has a thorough approach to everything, and our course was no exception. I managed to ask him a few questions, I'll tell you later. We also discussed the meme " WAGNER-BUNNIES " that was born on our course, thanks to the wonderful instructors. Before leaving, we spent a few hours at the shooting range, worked with the AK, PM and SVD, we were given chevrons and personal tokens, and we went our separate ways. My Donetsk was waiting for me, from tomorrow my military correspondent's everyday life will begin again. Wagner, thank you for your care, for your knowledge, for being there! I love you and hope to see you again! Yours, Maryana Naumova By rates: * Invitation * Day 1 - road, accommodation * Day 2 - equipment and work at the training ground * Day 3 - theory, medicine, work on the training ground * Day 4 - engineering and sapper work, orientation * Day 5 - Practical Tactical Medicine * Day 6 - work at the training ground, tests, receiving chevrons and tokens * Live broadcast on Channel One about the courses for war correspondents

08. 02. 23 THANK YOU, WAGNER! WE WORK... The training course for war correspondents at the Wagner PMC has been completed. Today Evgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin came to us to take tests and talk about the course program. Despite the fact that our classes were more than educational, cool, informative - I don't even know what epithets to choose, I really liked everything, despite being fully booked these days and pleasantly tired. So, despite all this, the experience of our course will be used to improve the program, PMC Wagner has a thorough approach to everything, and our course was no exception. I managed to ask him a few questions, I'll tell you later. We also discussed the meme " WAGNER-BUNNIES " that was born on our course, thanks to the wonderful instructors. Before leaving, we spent a few hours at the shooting range, worked with the AK, PM and SVD, we were given chevrons and personal tokens, and we went our separate ways. My Donetsk was waiting for me, from tomorrow my military correspondent's everyday life will begin again. Wagner, thank you for your care, for your knowledge, for being there! I love you and hope to see you again! Yours, Maryana Naumova By rates: * Invitation * Day 1 - road, accommodation * Day 2 - equipment and work at the training ground * Day 3 - theory, medicine, work on the training ground * Day 4 - engineering and sapper work, orientation * Day 5 - Practical Tactical Medicine * Day 6 - work at the training ground, tests, receiving chevrons and tokens * Live broadcast on Channel One about the courses for war correspondents

Maryana Naumova 🇷🇺

14,711 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr