“Look what our robot built!! Home StreetView FTW. All on the edge device — if it can see it, it can clean it. If it can see it, it can manipulate it…(shh!!). WARNING: This is not a lab demo. It’s a real robot, in a real home, solving real problems! Thanks to our incredible…”
“Introducing DrEureka🎓, our latest effort pushing the frontier of robot learning using LLMs! DrEureka uses LLMs to automatically design reward functions and tune physics parameters to enable sim-to-real robot learning. DrEureka can propose effective sim-to-real configurations
Meeting Astribot: the AI Humanoid that Can Cook – Startups Win
“𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻𝗖𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁 is a low-cost and robust household collaborative robot. Check out our first teleoperated dual-armed prototype: chest-mounted control, arm elevation, mobile chassis, and lemons 🍋 (full video →
“Ag2Manip Learning Novel Manipulation Skills with Agent-Agnostic Visual and Action Representations Autonomous robotic systems capable of learning novel manipulation tasks are poised to transform industries from manufacturing to service automation.
“Did anyone notice this? This is amazing! I think single-task robot manipulation is already completely solved through imitation learning.
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“This cutting-edge robot is a Silicon Valley startup’s answer to labor shortages.
“Robots + AI are the next great frontier We demo’d some of the latest AI on our robot during 60 Minutes last week Figure-01 is connected to a pertained model via OpenAI to output common sense reasoning So when Bill says “hand me something healthy” the robot, by visual reasoning
NVIDIA
“We trained a robot dog to balance and walk on top of a yoga ball purely in simulation, and then transfer zero-shot to the real world. No fine-tuning. Just works. I’m excited to announce DrEureka, an LLM agent that writes code to train robot skills in simulation, and writes more..”
Nvidia’s AI chatbot now supports Google’s Gemma model, voice queries, and more – The Verge
Sanctuary
Sanctuary AI Announces Microsoft Collaboration to Accelerate AI Development for General Purpose Robots
Stardust
Stardust just launched its AI robot, Astribot S1 – YouTube
Stardust’s Astribot S1 Watch: A new mind blowing Chinese robot claims to be superfast and precise
https://www.cnbctv18.com/technology/watch-a-new-mind-blowing-chinese-robot-claims-to-be-superfast-and-precise-19403357.htm
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AI News #31: Week Ending 05/03/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 95 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.
- Agents/Copilots
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
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/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
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