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/imagine prompt:photorealistic image. a humanoid robot navigating through a simulated environment resembling a collapsed building. The robot has a sleek, modern design with visible sensory equipment and intricate wiring. The environment is detailed, with debris and obstacles typical of a post-collapse scenario. The lighting should be warm, with natural light filtering through to highlight the robot's features and the complexity of the environment. The overall composition should convey a sense of collaboration between human ingenuity and AI, capturing the robot's sophisticated navigation and decision-making capabilities. --ar 16:9

Robotics and Embodiment News: Week Ending 03/08/2024

March 8, 2024

PROMPT: /imagine prompt:photorealistic image. a humanoid robot navigating through a simulated environment resembling a collapsed building. The robot has a sleek, modern design with visible sensory equipment and intricate wiring. The environment is detailed, with debris and obstacles typical of a post-collapse scenario. The lighting should be warm, with natural light filtering through to highlight the robot’s features and the complexity of the environment. The overall composition should convey a sense of collaboration between human ingenuity and AI, capturing the robot’s sophisticated navigation and decision-making capabilities. –ar 16:9

“We trained ANYmal to go into confined spaces such as under collapsed buildings. To be presented at #ICRA2024 Title: Learning to walk in confined spaces using 3D representation Arxiv: https://t.co/KvRhFb4FSv Video: https://t.co/etJQu3YSrW Summary Page: https://t.co/CwWka8jwIB https://t.co/ocgsE6cjZl” / X – https://twitter.com/ki_ki_ki1/status/1765059789434875983

“🤔 Ever wondered if simulation-based animation/avatar learnings can be applied to real humanoid in real-time? 🤖 Introducing H2O (Human2HumanOid): – 🧠 An RL-based human-to-humanoid real-time whole-body teleoperation framework – 💃 Scalable retargeting and training using large… https://t.co/9KGOAeBMJ3” / X – https://twitter.com/zhengyiluo/status/1765917724163899609

“How can we train robust policies with minimal human effort?🤖 We propose RialTo, a system that robustifies imitation learning policies from 15 real-world demonstrations using on-the-fly reconstructed simulations of the real world. (1/9)🧵 Project website: https://t.co/ZOU9zw7rVW https://t.co/PVzs09DpQO” / X – https://twitter.com/marceltornev/status/1765807049026547749

“🥽 Want to use your new Apple Vision Pro to control your robot? Want to record how you navigate / manipulate the world to train a policy? I developed an app for VisionOS that can stream your head / wrist / finger movements over WiFi, which you can subscribe on any machines using… https://t.co/l5CbeINWWf” / X – https://twitter.com/younghyo_park/status/1766274298422161830

“EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: Silicon Valley garage startup building a humanoid robot. $8,000. BOM on robot. @kscalelabs . 3D printed carbon fiber. 26 high torque electric motors that were stuck in customs for a month. Pre launch. Will be first shown at @ycombinator demo day in… https://t.co/rwbhpnpl7M” / X – https://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/1766365088129368113

“After 3 years @tesla and Optimus, I am thrilled to announce that I joined Hugging Face to start an ambitious open robotics project! (open as in open-source, not as in Open AI) Looking for engineers to build real robots in Paris 🇫🇷 https://t.co/cFuNL4PVI4 🤖🤗 https://t.co/7IkunPXOpX” / X – https://twitter.com/RemiCadene/status/1765715921388056904

Hugging Face nabs Tesla scientist for open source robotics project | VentureBeat – https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-is-launching-an-open-source-robotics-project-led-by-former-tesla-scientist/

Waymo to test self-driving vehicles without human driver in Austin – https://www.statesman.com/story/business/technology/2024/03/05/waymo-to-test-self-driving-vehicles-without-human-driver-in-austin/72855110007/

Unitree H1 Breaking humanoid robot speed world record [full-size humanoid] Evolution V3.0 – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83ShvgtyFAg

Meet Punyo, TRI’s Soft Robot for Whole-Body Manipulation Research – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-MD4gteeE

Meet Punyo, TRI’s Soft Robot for Whole-Body Manipulation Research | by Toyota Research Institute | Toyota Research Institute | Feb, 2024 | Medium – https://medium.com/toyotaresearch/meet-punyo-tris-soft-robot-for-whole-body-manipulation-research-949c934ac3d8
AI Chatbot Brains Are Going Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | Scientific American – https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-are-putting-chatgpt-brains-inside-robot-bodies-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/

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