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Robotics and Embodiment News: Week Ending 04/12/2024

April 12, 2024

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“We are building physical AI, a new category of AI that perceives, understands, and reasons about the physical world around us. Curious? Check out video to learn more about Newton, a first-of-its-kind physical AI foundation model. #PhysicalAI #Newton #ArchetypeAI https://twitter.com/PhysicalAI/status/1777468289079464401

“one day PhDs will animate every object around us with reinforcement learning to keep their thesis going https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1778819699062735350

This is AR… but will lead to training robots.

“PhysAvatar Learning the Physics of Dressed 3D Avatars from Visual Observations Modeling and rendering photorealistic avatars is of crucial importance in many applications. Existing methods that build a 3D avatar from visual observations, however, struggle to reconstruct https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1777561422924284181

“Excited to share we’ve closed $100M Series B funding led by @generalcatalyst. The support @htaneja and team have shown is amazing. Excited to have Paul Kwan join our Board and @teresacarlson on board as an Advisor. https://twitter.com/BradPorter_/status/1778064310004310356

“@steph_palazzolo @erinkwoo @AndrewYNg @herbertong Meta published OpenEQA, the Open-Vocabulary Embodied Question Answering Benchmark. The new benchmark measures the vision language model’s understanding of physical environments by asking it questions. https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1778602232256040996

“Today we’re releasing OpenEQA — the Open-Vocabulary Embodied Question Answering Benchmark. It measures an AI agent’s understanding of physical environments by probing it with open vocabulary questions like “Where did I leave my badge?” More details ➡️ https://twitter.com/AIatMeta/status/1778425321118732578

OpenEQA: From word models to world models – https://ai.meta.com/blog/openeqa-embodied-question-answering-robotics-ar-glasses/

“Figure-01 electromechanical humanoid robot https://twitter.com/adcock_brett/status/1776672870816739369

“Soccer players have to master a range of dynamic skills, from turning and kicking to chasing a ball. How could robots do the same? ⚽ We trained our AI agents to demonstrate a range of agile behaviors using reinforcement learning. Here’s how. 🧵 https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1778377999202541642

Learning agile soccer skills for a bipedal robot with deep reinforcement learning | Science Robotics – https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adi8022

Sanctuary

“BREAKING: Sanctuary AI, one of the leading humanoid bot companies, just announced a blockbuster partnership with Magna International – one of the largest companies in the automotive supply sector. And this partnership is wide ranging. Not only is Manga providing additional https://twitter.com/herbertong/status/1778420600790471084

Sanctuary AI Expands General Purpose Robot Footprint in Automotive Manufacturing Industry – https://sanctuary.ai/resources/news/sanctuary-ai-expands-general-purpose-robot-footprint-in-automotive-manufacturing-industry/

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