Columbia Engineering developed 'Human-Robot Facial Co-expression' to enhance human-robot interactions. They used a silicon-clad robot face that allows a robot to make eye contact and use AI to mimic more human-like facial expressions in real time.

A ton of AI and Robotics developments this week. Big announcements from Nvidia, Columbia University, OpenAI, Amazon, Google, Stanford, Scale AI, and more. Here's everything that happened and how to make sense out of it:

Nvidia announced 'DrEureka', an LLM agent that automates writing code to train robot skills. They used DrEureka to train a robot dog to balance/walk on a ball in simulation and transferred the skills to the real-world zero-shot and without any finetuning

We demo’d some of the latest AI at Figure HQ during 60 Minutes last week. At 0:57, you can see Figure-01's common sense reasoning. To achieve this, we connected a pre tained model via OpenAI.

OpenAI began rolling out its ChatGPT memory feature. It allows ChatGPT to carry over learnings between conversations by simply telling it what you want it to remember.

Amazon just announced Q, the company’s AI-powered assistant for businesses and developers They also launched a new 'Q Apps' feature that allows non-technical users to create custom AI applications using prompts, from company data.

Google just introduced Med-Gemini, a family of AI models fine-tuned for medical tasks. The model achieved SOTA on 10 of the 14 benchmarks from text, multimodal, and long-context applications.

A team of Taiwanese researchers performed a new study with 16,000 patients to predict patient risk in hospitals. They trained AI on 450,000 ECG tests and the tech reduced overall deaths by 31% and deaths from heart issues by over 90%.

Google also introduced a new Chrome shortcut that lets users initiate Gemini conversations more easily. Users can type @ gemini and add a prompt to get responses from the AI without going to a separate site.

Scale AI just released new research uncovering significant ‘overfitting’ of certain LLMs on popular AI benchmarks. Mistral and Phi were under-performers, while GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and Llama all stood its ground

Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs introduced the world's first AI diplomat, ‘Victoriya Shi’. The new spokesperson is an AI-generated avatar and will deliver pre-prepared official statements on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

That's it for this week's AI and Robotics breakdown. I share the latest research every week, so follow me @adcock_brett for more. If you found this valuable, consider a like/retweet to spread the word.

🧠 Unified Search. Smarter Meetings. Effortless CRM. MightyBot is your AI agent platform for seamless workflows—record meetings, automate CRM updates, and find answers across apps in seconds. 🌟 Focus on what matters. We'll handle the grind.

Human skin attaches to interstititium above muscle , anchored in different places. When a human face emotes, some skin stretches, wrinkles, or barely moves all at the same time...I have no idea why all these demos, miss the underlying structure of real human skin.

Thanks for reposting; I am building more face robots in AheadForm: and looking forward to designing one for Helix.