Brain-controlled exoskeletons to train humanoid robots! 🧠 Fourier just presented human tele-operators using brain control interfaces and exoskeletal arms to train humanoid robots on home tasks. The brain control interface is the interesting part. Instead of using a controller or joystick to teleoperate, the operator's movements and intentions are... captured more naturally through the exoskeleton and BCI. This means the demonstrations are more fluid, more human-like, and better suited for training robots to perform delicate home tasks. Multiple tele-operators are simultaneously generating training data across multiple robots. This is how you build the dataset needed for eventual full autonomy, without waiting years for it to arrive. This might be the bridge between "robots that work in controlled environments" and "robots that work in homes." Not full autonomy right away, but trusted human intelligence operating through a robot body, getting better with every task completed. ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more

@FourierRobots That is amazing. Scale the size up and not necessarily humanoid form. Could be more specialised form factor. Remove the human from dangerous or undesirable conditions. And then increase physical attributes like strength, reach, height.

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@FourierRobots Can these robots beat RL based trained robots?? @grok

@FourierRobots @Grok, what is the company's origin?

@FourierRobots Great now let’s just sit and do our jobs. Why not port it into Minecraft make the bots punch trees.

This feels like a very practical bridge to autonomy. Using brain controlled exoskeletons to capture intent and fluid motion gives robots the kind of data they actually need for home tasks. Scaling that across multiple operators and robots is how learning accelerates. Interesting work from Fourier Robots 🧠🤖

@FourierRobots Curious what the demonstration-to-competency ratio looks like compared to pure RL approaches because if its 10x better data efficiency this changes capex models entirely.

@FourierRobots You want to capture the movements of highly dexterous people idk about them

@FourierRobots This is epic for training!

@FourierRobots wow! 💕

@FourierRobots Brain control, my arse 🤣🤣🤣