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Robotics and Embodiment News: Week Ending 03/29/2024

March 29, 2024

“#ICLR24🚀🚀 Introduce DIFFTACTILE, A physics-based differentiable tactile simulation system designed to enhance contact-rich robotic manipulation with dense and physically accurate tactile feedback! 👉👉Project page: https://twitter.com/gan_chuang/status/1771268662353150183

Elon Musk says Tesla Optimus robot should cost ‘less than half of a car’ | Electrek – https://electrek.co/2024/03/27/elon-musk-tesla-optimus-robot-cost-less-than-half-car/

A monocycle robot with two legs | Electrical & Computer Engineering | UIUC – https://ece.illinois.edu/newsroom/monocycle-robot

Does AI need a “body” to become truly intelligent? Meta thinks so. – https://www.freethink.com/robots-ai/embodied-ai

Launch YC: K-Scale Labs 🤖 Open-source humanoid robots for everyone | Y Combinator – https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KkQ-k-scale-labs-open-source-humanoid-robots-for-everyone

“ECE associate professor Joohyung Kim and Kevin Gim have created a monocycle robot with a hybrid leg-wheel mechanism enabling it to tackle diverse terrains. 🤖 More on our website: https://twitter.com/ECEILLINOIS/status/1772710099796001275

Sanctuary

Accenture Invests in Sanctuary AI to Bring AI-Powered, Humanoid Robotics to Work Alongside Humans – https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/2024/accenture-invests-in-sanctuary-ai-to-bring-ai-powered-humanoid-robotics-to-work-alongside-humans

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AI News #25: Week Ending 03/22/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 55 Links

The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.

Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/

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One response to “Robotics and Embodiment News: Week Ending 03/29/2024”

AI News #26: Week Ending 03/29/2024 with Executive Summary, Top 49 Links, and Helpful Visuals – Ethan B. Holland

April 15, 2024 at 11:55 am

[…] Robotics/Embodiment News of the Week: This is the most intense area of AI. Embodiment refers to putting an AI inside of a machine. It’s “embodying” the object and therefore giving a robot agency in the real world. An example would be using a large language model as an interface to a complex coding task. Just as you ask “Alexa, play Bad Blood by Taylor Swift on Spotify” using plain language, with embodiment you could ask a robot to “Go to the laundry basket and bring me all of the red shirts”. The language model in the robot would translate your request into the proper code to go get the red shirts. The robot was never trained on the task. Another type of embodiment would be training a robot using virtual reality simulations. Using an simulation, a robot could be trained on thousands of scenarios until the real world can be swapped out and the robot doesn’t “notice”. This section also includes factory automation and human prosthetics. There will be some overlap with other categories like autonomous vehicles. I first learned about embodiment from Alan Thompson. I highly recommend his video explainer: https://youtu.be/peLqYP9BAUg?si=2FzrvDlw-qaQFaCx.This week’s latest robot and embodiment AI news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/29/robotics-and-embodiment-news-week-ending-03-29-2024/ […]

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