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Robotics and Embodiment News: Week Ending 05/17/2024

May 17, 2024

I decided to try a theme with this week’s cover imagery to see how creative MidJourney could be with simple prompts. Each category cover image is a name tag + art style. It was pretty neat to see the variances. The goal is not perfection. By posting the mistakes, we’ll get to see how imagery improves over time. Here is the prompt for the cover:

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“Audience: That OpenAI voice sounds a little too sexy Unitree: hold my beer

Audience: That OpenAI voice sounds a little too sexy

Unitree: hold my beer pic.twitter.com/WkrTOYSktD
— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) May 14, 2024

“Path to open source humanoids. Let’s go 🔥 LeRobot – state-of-the-art ml for real-world robotics

Path to open source humanoids. Let's go 🔥
LeRobot – state-of-the-art ml for real-world robotics pic.twitter.com/U10xSBICm1
— Mishig Davaadorj (@mishig25) May 15, 2024

“#ICRA2024 Quadruped Robot Challenges（四脚ロボットチャレンジ）に Boston Dynamics の Spot が登場。リモコン操縦。

#ICRA2024 Quadruped Robot Challenges（四脚ロボットチャレンジ）に Boston Dynamics の Spot が登場。リモコン操縦。 pic.twitter.com/oulYeDoKql
— Yoshitaka HARA (@ystk_hara) May 15, 2024

Video: $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl

https://newatlas.com/robotics/unitree-g1-humanoid-agent

“Unitree Introducing | Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent | AI Avatar Price from $16K 🤩 Unlock unlimited sports potential(Extra large joint movement angle, 23~34 joints) Force control of dexterous hands, manipulation of all things Imitation & reinforcement learning driven #Unitree #AI

Unitree Introducing | Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent | AI Avatar
Price from $16K 🤩
Unlock unlimited sports potential(Extra large joint movement angle, 23~34 joints)
Force control of dexterous hands, manipulation of all things
Imitation & reinforcement learning driven#Unitree #AI pic.twitter.com/Dv1yGaGpoJ
— Unitree (@UnitreeRobotics) May 13, 2024

“Unitree G1 Humanoid Price from $16K G1 has 23-43 joints and offers extra large joint angle limits Notably, it has really usable 3 fingered hands in addition to anthromoporphic hands with Force control (in some variants). The demo is impressive in so many aspects as it is, but

Unitree G1 Humanoid Price from $16K

G1 has 23-43 joints and offers extra large joint angle limits

Notably, it has really usable 3 fingered hands in addition to anthromoporphic hands with Force control (in some variants).

The demo is impressive in so many aspects as it is, but… pic.twitter.com/mvMZpsn1YT
— Animesh Garg (@animesh_garg) May 13, 2024

AI Robot Gives Graduation Speech at Buffalo’s D’Youville University – The New York Times

The Road to Embodied AI – Wayve

The Road to Embodied AI

Figure

“Figure-01 humanoid robot Demonstrating speech-to-speech reasoning”

Figure-01 humanoid robot

Demonstrating speech-to-speech reasoning https://t.co/9mFI1N99oi
— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) May 18, 2024

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AI News #33: Week Ending 05/17/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 58 Links

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