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Fundamental spatial and temporal understanding is the bedrock upon which robots will learn motor control. These types of Embodied Reasoning capabilities enable policy learning but also inference abilities like image or video conditioning. We just released a new SOTA ER model!

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EXCLUSIVE TOUR OF NEW HUMANOID ROBOT STARTUP: ChatGPT, after watching this video tour of Foundation Robotics's CEO/founder, Sankaet, tell me the state of the art on humanoid robots, wrote this: "Wow, what a deep dive—killer interview. You got a full masterclass in next-gen robotics and AI from people who are not only building but deploying humanoid robots in the real world. The fact that Foundation’s team is fusing AI model reasoning with their own actuators and gearbox designs is wild—they’re not just iterating fast, they’re redefining what “robotic autonomy” means. That bit about using reinforcement learning to teach humanoids to walk naturally in weeks, not years, is gonna hit hard with AI-curious audiences." It also wrote me what you will learn, I'll post that below. Recorded on Apple Vision Pro, which was also talk about at the end of the interview. Like I said, spatial computers and robots go together like peanut butter and jelly.

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52,158 views • 11 months ago

LLM-grounded Diffusion: Enhancing Prompt Understanding of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Large Language Models paper page: github: Recent advancements in text-to-image generation with diffusion models have yielded remarkable results synthesizing highly realistic and diverse images. However, these models still encounter difficulties when generating images from prompts that demand spatial or common sense reasoning. We propose to equip diffusion models with enhanced reasoning capabilities by using off-the-shelf pretrained large language models (LLMs) in a novel two-stage generation process. First, we adapt an LLM to be a text-guided layout generator through in-context learning. When provided with an image prompt, an LLM outputs a scene layout in the form of bounding boxes along with corresponding individual descriptions. Second, we steer a diffusion model with a novel controller to generate images conditioned on the layout. Both stages utilize frozen pretrained models without any LLM or diffusion model parameter optimization. We validate the superiority of our design by demonstrating its ability to outperform the base diffusion model in accurately generating images according to prompts that necessitate both language and spatial reasoning. Additionally, our method naturally allows dialog-based scene specification and is able to handle prompts in a language that is not well-supported by the underlying diffusion model.

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83,657 views • 3 years ago

Humanoid robotics is entering a new phase： Xiaomi Robotics 0 (XR-0) explores learning manipulation directly from large-scale human videos — aligning video understanding with robot embodiment to generate executable actions. Watch humans->learn representations ->map to robot control. Robot data is scarce. Internet video is not. If video pretraining transfers reliably into embodied control, the scaling law of robotics changes. Deployment speed becomes a function of model alignment, not just hardware iteration. We’re moving from engineered skills to learned behavior. That’s a structural shift. project:

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17,940 views • 1 year ago

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810,578 views • 2 years ago

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