a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a robot, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Robots” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1
“Chinese startup BXI Robotics’ Elf is now available for purchase for $25,000. The 4’3, 57-pound bipedal robot is capable of carrying up to 44 pounds, but has pretty limited capacity other than that
“#BXI’s bipedal robot Elf pulling a chair with 20KG water can forward, eazy!
“BXI’s full sized bipedal robot Elf. For less than 20,000USD, a developer is able to instantly deploy algorithms form a simulator to the real hardware. Ship to worldwide countries.
“Researchers at UCSD and MIT introduced Open-TeleVision It’s an open-source tele-op system that allows users to control robots from thousands of miles away It’s also accessible from any device with a web browser, including VR
“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!
“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.
“From today’s Neuralink stream: ⦿ Elon: People who lost speech will be able to communicate with Optimus via Neuralink. ⦿ Elon: An exciting long-term possibility is attaching Optimus limbs to amputees for direct control via brain signals. “You’d have, basically, cybernetic
“Elon Musk and Neuralink went live and shared the insane potential of Neuralink <> Tesla Optimus 1. People who can’t speak can communicate with Optimus 2. People who’ve lost limbs could possibly use a robotic Optimus limb and control it with their brains
Skild AI Raises $300M Series A To Build A Scalable AI Foundation Model For Robotics
@TheRundownAI Skild AI just emerged from stealth with a massive $300M Series A round and plans to develop a ‘general-purpose brain’ for robots They claim its foundational AI model is trained on a dataset 1,000x larger than competitors
“Clone Robotics, a humanoid robotics startup from Poland, released new footage of the ‘Clone Hand’ It’s an interesting startup building a human-like musculoskeletal body using hydraulic tendon muscles
“New video from @clonerobotics. The Clone Hand not only has a human-like range of motion in its opposable thumb, but it also features the muscle that flexes and laterally rotates the little finger.
China’s Laws of Robotics: Shanghai publishes first humanoid robot guidelines
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“We released new footage of Figure-01 working on a use case for BMW Group’s Spartanburg Plant Our robots are working fully autonomously using an AI-driven vision model If you want to learn more, here’s a detailed thread I wrote:
“Google DeepMind just published new research on robot navigation. The research leverages the large context window of Gemini 1.5 Pro to enable robots to understand and navigate complex environments from human instructions.
Google says Gemini AI is making its robots smarter – The Verge
“How can Gemini 1.5 Pro’s long context window help robots navigate the world? 🤖 A thread of our latest experiments. 🧵
“We took the robots on a tour of specific areas in a real-world setting, highlighting key places to recall – such as “Lewis’s desk” or “temporary desk area”. Then, they were asked to lead us to these locations. 🏢 Watch more. ↓
“Next, we provided more multimodal instructions, such as: 📝 Map sketches on a whiteboard 🗣️ Audio requests referencing places from the tour 🎲 Visual cues, like a box of toys. With these acting as inputs, the robot could carry out various actions for different people.
“In tests, Google DeepMinds robots responded to multimodal instructions, including map sketches, audio requests, and visual cues like a box of toys. The system also allows for natural language commands like “take me somewhere to draw things”
Google DeepMind’s AI Rat Brains Could Make Robots Scurry Like the Real Thing
Sanctuary
“Sanctuary AI secures a new investment from BDC Capital and InBC, bringing the total investment to date to over $140 million. The valuation hasn’t been disclosed. https://twitter.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1808493634024845815
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AI News #41: Week Ending 07/12/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 58 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
- Safe Intelligence, Inc.
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
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- 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/
- Andrej Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy
- Brett Adcock: https://x.com/adcock_brett
- Florent Daudens: https://x.com/fdaudens
- Ate-a-Pi: https://x.com/8teAPi
- Francesco Marconi: https://x.com/fpmarconi
- Charlie Beckett: https://x.com/CharlieBeckett
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