“Robotics + open source = <3 Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics show off first project: an open source robot that does chores
“Open-source robotics is the way 🦾”
“Want a robot to navigate a cluttered room and fetch you something? Presenting SPIN: seamlessly moves past obstacles using active vision & whole-body coordination. SPIN learns an end-to-end policy in simulation, jointly optimizing perception & action
Will Scaling Solve Robotics? – IEEE Spectrum
“Triple launch day 🎉🍾 We’re at 3 @Walmart locations in Alabama, inside @SmartStyleSalon. 🔥We love meeting our customers where they are so we add that extra bit of convenience to their self-care routine. 🤖💅 #robotics #ai #selfcare
“Dino Robotics showed off a new video of its robot chef making schnitzel with a side of fries by using object localization and 3D image processing. The robot was trained to be capable of recognizing and understanding various kitchen objects.
“1X showed off a new demo of its EVE humanoid performing chained tasks. You’ll notice the bot picking up a shirt and then picking up the cup. Congrats on the internal updates
“Introduce OmniH2O, a learning-based system for whole-body humanoid teleop and autonomy: 🦾Robust loco-mani policy 🦸Universal teleop interface: VR, verbal, RGB 🧠Autonomy via @chatgpt4o or imitation 🔗Release the first whole-body humanoid dataset
Amazon
“Amazon robots spotted waiting to cross busy NYC street.
OpenAI
Research Engineer, Robotics | OpenAI | OpenAI
OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group – The Robot Report
This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #36: Week Ending 06/07/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 40 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/
For previous issues, please visit the archives!
Thanks for reading!
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