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Robotics and Embodiment News: Week Ending 04/05/2024

April 6, 2024

“Inspired by OpenAI and Figure, UBTECH and Baidu have partnered to integrate large AI models into humanoid robots. Their demo features the Walker S robot folding clothes and sorting objects through natural language, using Baidu’s LLM, ERNIE Bot, for task interpretation/planning. https://twitter.com/TeslaBotJournal/status/1775235823451213961

Apple Exploring ‘Mobile Robot’ That ‘Follows Users Around Their Homes’ – MacRumors – https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/03/apple-reportedly-investigating-robotics/

Apple (AAPL) Explores Home Robots After Abandoning Car Efforts – Bloomberg – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-03/apple-explores-home-robots-after-abandoning-car-efforts

Robot, can you say ‘Cheese’? | Columbia Engineering –

Columbia engineers build Emo, a silicon-clad robotic face that makes eye contact and uses two AI models to anticipate and replicate a person’s smile before the person actually smiles — a major advance in robots predicting human facial expressions accurately, improving interactions, and building trust between humans and robots.https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/robot-can-you-say-cheese

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