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Robotics and Embodiment News: Week Ending 07/05/2024

July 5, 2024

fireworks over the ocean at night. a humanoid robot sleeps on the beach under a blanket with the word “Robots” on it. –chaos 30 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize qko3v53 –v 6.1

“RX1 Humanoid robot week 2 updates: @_buildspace @_nightsweekends – Opensource, low cost ($1,000) – Human-scale dual-arm manipulation – Teleoperation & machine learning – Pick and place applications for education/ research and Industrial/commercial POC

RX1 Humanoid robot week 2 updates: @_buildspace @_nightsweekends
– Opensource, low cost ($1,000)
– Human-scale dual-arm manipulation
– Teleoperation & machine learning
– Pick and place applications for education/ research and Industrial/commercial POC https://t.co/dZDJ7UYHyc pic.twitter.com/kXIlNFITQd
— Lethic (@lethic1) July 1, 2024

“Introduce Open-𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧🤖: ⁣ We need an intuitive and remote teleoperation interface to collect more robot data. 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 lets you immersively operate a robot even if you are 3000 miles away, like in the movie 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘳. Open-sourced!

Introduce Open-𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧🤖: ⁰⁣
We need an intuitive and remote teleoperation interface to collect more robot data.
𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 lets you immersively operate a robot even if you are 3000 miles away, like in the movie 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘳.
Open-sourced! pic.twitter.com/629fQKtCWU
— Xuxin Cheng (@xuxin_cheng) July 2, 2024

“Menteebots are mentored by people. On their first day in a new place, the owner or co-worker needs to show them around. This involves following a person in an unfamiliar environment while avoiding obstacles.

Menteebots are mentored by people. On their first day in a new place, the owner or co-worker needs to show them around. This involves following a person in an unfamiliar environment while avoiding obstacles. pic.twitter.com/NEsWenee1w
— Mentee Robotics (@MenteeBot) July 4, 2024

Wild looking robotic dog

“『視覚障害者のための6脚ロボット盲導犬』高い飼育コストや長期訓練などによる盲導犬不足問題を解消する策として期待される

『視覚障害者のための6脚ロボット盲導犬』
高い飼育コストや長期訓練などによる盲導犬不足問題を解消する策として期待されるhttps://t.co/xp7waxp1aI #RoboticDog #GuideRobot #SixLegged #blind #a11y #accessibility pic.twitter.com/tjIoe9Ih27
— T.Yamazaki (@ZappyZappy7) July 2, 2024

“Agility Robotics just signed a multi-year deal with GXO Logistics to bring the company’s humanoid robots to warehouses The agreement is the first Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) deal and ‘formal commercial deployment’ of the humanoids Are subscription-based robots the future?

Agility Robotics just signed a multi-year deal with GXO Logistics to bring the company’s humanoid robots to warehouses

The agreement is the first Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) deal and ‘formal commercial deployment’ of the humanoids

Are subscription-based robots the future? pic.twitter.com/hlFaYJBuwd
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) July 1, 2024

GXO Signs Industry-First Multi-Year Agreement with Agility Robotics — Agility Robotics

https://agilityrobotics.com/content/gxo-signs-industry-first-multi-year-agreement-with-agility-robotics

“Our 6ft humanoid HumanPlus at Stanford can autonomously put on a Nike skateboard shoe, tie shoelaces, stand up and walk. Using two transformers & dual RGB vision, it integrates two recipes of general robotics end-to-end: – imitating humans in real world – large-scale RL in sim

Our 6ft humanoid HumanPlus at Stanford can autonomously put on a Nike skateboard shoe, tie shoelaces, stand up and walk.

Using two transformers & dual RGB vision, it integrates two recipes of general robotics end-to-end:
– imitating humans in real world
– large-scale RL in sim pic.twitter.com/sQoLXCrsGh
— Zipeng Fu (@zipengfu) June 24, 2024

“UCSD introduced CARMEN, short for Cognitively Assistive Robot for Motivation and Neurorehabilitation. It’s a small, tabletop robot to help people with mild cognitive impairment learn skills to improve memory, attention, and executive functioning at home

UCSD introduced CARMEN, short for Cognitively Assistive Robot for Motivation and Neurorehabilitation.

It's a small, tabletop robot to help people with mild cognitive impairment learn skills to improve memory, attention, and executive functioning at homepic.twitter.com/fLZqIex3cn
— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) June 30, 2024

“Unitree H1 Breaking humanoid robot speed world record [full-size humanoid] Evolution V3.0 🥰 The humanoid robot driven by the robot AI world model unlocks many new skills! Strong power is waiting for you to develop! #Unitree #AI #subject3 #BlackTech

Unitree H1 Breaking humanoid robot speed world record [full-size humanoid] Evolution V3.0 🥰
The humanoid robot driven by the robot AI world model unlocks many new skills!
Strong power is waiting for you to develop!#Unitree #AI #subject3 #BlackTech pic.twitter.com/fTAgilCO5p
— Unitree (@UnitreeRobotics) March 1, 2024

“The first human patient to receive the Neuralink implant, @ModdedQuad, mentioned that he might be able to control an Optimus robot using Neuralink during the study, hopefully within the next few months or a year.

The first human patient to receive the Neuralink implant, @ModdedQuad, mentioned that he might be able to control an Optimus robot using Neuralink during the study, hopefully within the next few months or a year. pic.twitter.com/6ABr3MilWs
— The Humanoid Hub (@TheHumanoidHub) July 4, 2024

“Leju Robotics just launched a full-size humanoid robot called Kuafu The bot is powered by Huawei’s Multimodal LLM PanGU to allow it to understand natural language, plan tasks, and execute with bimanual coordination

Leju Robotics just launched a full-size humanoid robot called Kuafu

The bot is powered by Huawei's Multimodal LLM PanGU to allow it to understand natural language, plan tasks, and execute with bimanual coordination pic.twitter.com/1pGXXquAIb
— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) June 30, 2024

Persona’s founders are certain the world can use another humanoid robot | TechCrunch

Persona’s founders are certain the world can use another humanoid robot

Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines | Japan | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/04/japan-train-robot-maintain-railway-lines

“University of Tokyo has developed a method for attaching living, self-healing skin to robotic surfaces using perforation-type anchors inspired by human skin ligaments. This breakthrough brings us closer to biohybrid robots that are adaptable and lifelike.

University of Tokyo has developed a method for attaching living, self-healing skin to robotic surfaces using perforation-type anchors inspired by human skin ligaments.

This breakthrough brings us closer to biohybrid robots that are adaptable and lifelike. pic.twitter.com/S5nQ8LLTup
— The Humanoid Hub (@TheHumanoidHub) June 27, 2024

“NEW: Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road leading the nonexistent driver to roll the windows down to speak with the police. This is hilarious. Waymo has since released a statement, apparently blaming the incident

NEW: Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road leading the nonexistent driver to roll the windows down to speak with the police.

This is hilarious.

Waymo has since released a statement, apparently blaming the incident… pic.twitter.com/JKF2JSEGCu
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 4, 2024

Figure

“NEWS: Figure + BMW Group’s Spartanburg Plant → Fully autonomous → AI-driven vision model → Neural Networks for all grasps More details below:

NEWS: Figure + BMW Group's Spartanburg Plant

→ Fully autonomous
→ AI-driven vision model
→ Neural Networks for all grasps

More details below:pic.twitter.com/8mmuHy3PBZ
— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) July 1, 2024

Watch: Figure’s 01 humanoids now working at BMW’s car plant in US

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/us-figure-humanoid-start-operations-at-bmw-plant

Figure Status Update – BMW Full Use Case – YouTube

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