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Robotics and Embodiment News: Week Ending 04/19/2024

April 19, 2024

USAF Test Pilot School and DARPA announce breakthrough in aerospace machine learning > Edwards Air Force Base > Article View –
Dogfighting is a highly complex scenario that the X-62A utilized to successfully prove using non-deterministic artificial intelligence safely is possible within aerospace. The AI dogfights paired the X-62A VISTA against manned F-16 aircraft in the skies above Edwards. Initial flight safety was built up first using defensive maneuvers, before switching to offensive high-aspect nose-to-nose engagements where the dogfighting aircraft got as close as 2,000 feet at 1,200 miles per hour.

https://www.edwards.af.mil/News/Article-View/Article/3744695/usaf-test-pilot-school-and-darpa-announce-breakthrough-in-aerospace-machine-lea

“DARPA and USAF just quietly dropped that an AI-piloted F-16 engaged in a dogfight against a human over Area 51. https://twitter.com/kane/status/1781098379176726603

“Humanoid robots will exceed the supply of iPhones in the next decade. Gradually, then suddenly.” / X – https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1780254247650787512

“AI winter? No. Even if GPT-5 plateaus. Robotics hasn’t even started to scale yet. Embodied intelligence in the physical world will be a powerhouse for economic value. Friendly reminder to everyone that LLM is not all of AI. It is just one piece of a bigger puzzle.” / X – https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1781726400854269977

Menteebot is a human-sized AI robot that you command with natural language – https://www.yahoo.com/tech/menteebot-is-a-human-sized-ai-robot-that-you-command-with-natural-language-110052927.html

“Tesla FSD v13 will likely be grokking language tokens. What excites me the most about Grok-1.5V is the potential to solve edge cases in self-driving. Using language for “chain of thought” will help the car break down a complex scenario, reason with rules and counterfactuals, and… https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1779558822543229221

“Meet Menteebot! Menteebot is a humanoid robot developed by Mentee Robotics that displays a complete end-to-end cycle from a verbal command to complex task completion including navigation, locomotion, scene understanding, object detection and localization, grasping and natural… https://twitter.com/herbertong/status/1780964885134020880

Menteebot is a human-sized AI robot that you command with natural language – https://www.engadget.com/menteebot-is-a-human-sized-ai-robot-that-you-command-with-natural-language-110052927.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9saWZlYXJjaGl0ZWN0LnN1YnN0YWNrLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKkS9tiiBSQ8g0OhNX3LIZecjcs_gJpscOc36bneKrb_iJL94s8XaJKBN5niSzlp1pCJMEPI9kcI_JZhCJYo8VQsBRHUjuCabWXvHA274X2TJ6zAyFHGUyxd8-szl36DZOGjNzbfw7VOQE8_CjYYD7oGqOW4xPBkFOWGtHV5gtqc

Boston Dynamics

“.@Boston Dynamics retired its hydraulic Atlas yesterday, making room for a brand new, all-electric Atlas destined for factory work. https://twitter.com/IEEESpectrum/status/1780585980124111218

“We promise this is not a person in a bodysuit. https://twitter.com/BostonDynamics/status/1780603212359205323

An Electric New Era for Atlas | Boston Dynamics – https://bostondynamics.com/blog/electric-new-era-for-atlas/

“It took my brain a while to parse what’s going on in this video. We are so obsessed with “human-level” robotics that we forget it is just an artificial ceiling. Why don’t we make a new species superhuman from day one? Boston Dynamics has once again reinvented itself. Gradually,… https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1780622682561929645

All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ECwExc-_M

Hello, Electric Atlas – IEEE Spectrum – Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance”
https://spectrum.ieee.org/atlas-humanoid-robot?share_id=8210675

Google

“Google DeepMind researchers shared new demos of its low-cost ALOHA 2 autonomous robots. The new demos showcase the robot’s ability to tie shoelaces, hang shirts, and more. https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1780776307938177268

“For the past year we’ve been working on ALOHA Unleashed 🌋 @GoogleDeepmind – pushing the scale and dexterity of tasks on our ALOHA 2 fleet. Here is a thread with some of the coolest videos! The first task is hanging a shirt on a hanger (autonomous 1x) https://twitter.com/ayzwah/status/1780263768968273923

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