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Robotics and Embodiment News: Week Ending 06/14/2024

a sunny day with blue skies. an apple orchard. a rusty humanoid robot holds an apple. a wooden sign says “Robots” –chaos 40 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8

Brett Adcock on X: “CMU Robotics introduced OmniH2O, a learning-based system for whole-body humanoid teleoperation/autonomy Using a ‘universal control interface’, OmniH2O allows humans to control full-sized humanoids using VR headsets, verbal instructions, and RGB cameras https://t.co/JfbWz6HZJh” / X – https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1799834824955359475

Stanford HumanPlus

https://humanoid-ai.github.io

“Power On: Apple’s AI push isn’t so much about its current devices, but enabling its next wave of hardware from AR glasses to AirPods with cameras to potentially humanoid robots and more. 

“With @Harvard, we built a ‘virtual rodent’ powered by AI to help us better understand how the brain controls movement. 🧠 With deep RL, it learned to operate a biomechanically accurate rat model – allowing us to compare real & virtual neural activity. → 

Train a prosthetic limb by thinking about moving your phantom limb, until it works.

“AI and robotics is on the verge of transforming prosthetic limbs. Watch @AtomLimbs’ tech in action. 

“Atom Limbs is combining AI and robotics to create a much more advanced form of prosthetics The startup covers a patient’s stump in electrodes and tells a patient to move their ‘fingers’, essentially training an AI model using their minds 

Tesla claims it has 2 Optimus humanoid robots working autonomously in factory | Electrek

Tesla claims it has 2 Optimus humanoid robots working autonomously in factory

“Our paper presented at Robotics and Automation Magazine is now on arXiv and YouTube! Toward Autonomous Driving by Musculoskeletal Humanoids: A Study of Developed Hardware and Learning-Based Software arxiv: 

Humanoid tourist: Watch AI-powered robot climb the Great Wall of China

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/humanoid-tourist-climbs-great-wall-of-china

“RobotEra, another Chinese startup, released a new video of its humanoid. XBot-L just became the first humanoid robot to walk the Great Wall of China 

Want to make robots more agile? Take a lesson from a rat. — Harvard Gazette

Want to make robots more agile? Take a lesson from a rat.

“Yale Faboratory presented VSRS, a concept that integrates stiffness-changing capabilities, sensing, and actuation into a thin design for robots “Reconfiguring, reconnecting, and reshaping VSRSs allows them to achieve new functions both on and in the absence of a host body” 

“CMU Robotics introduced OmniH2O, a learning-based system for whole-body humanoid teleoperation/autonomy Using a ‘universal control interface’, OmniH2O allows humans to control full-sized humanoids using VR headsets, verbal instructions, and RGB cameras 

“Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics demo’d “Reachy2”, a humanoid robot from Hugging Face’s new ‘Le Robot’ program The demo shows the robot doing chores autonomously, with the dataset and the model trained all open-sourced on HF 

“OpenVLA An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model Large policies pretrained on a combination of Internet-scale vision-language data and diverse robot demonstrations have the potential to change how we teach robots new skills: rather than training new behaviors from 

“Introduce HumanPlus – Shadowing part Humanoids are born for using human data. We build a real-time shadowing system using a single RGB camera and a whole-body policy for cloning human motion. Examples: – boxing🥊 – playing the piano🎹/ping pong – tossing – typing Open-sourced! 

1X

“You can now tell EVE to do multiple autonomous tasks back-to-back. Watch a team of EVEs work together to clean up our office. 

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AI News #37: Week Ending 06/14/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 7 Must-Read 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.

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