A Google robot tying its shoes.

“We are rapidly losing the robotics race, the most important competition for the future of the world. The sooner we realize it, the better. We will not stand a chance until we build out an affordable, scalable, and diverse supply chain that leads the world in manufacturing tech.” / X

“Enjoying the fruits of my labor now that I finished my 12-legged ‘Carpentopod’ table project. See 

Carpentopod: A walking table project

“Super excited for the release of Robot Utility Models (RUMs)! RUMs is a simple method to build zero-shot robot policies that can solve useful tasks in completely new homes without any additional training often at 90%+ success rate. 🧵👇 

“We just released RUMs, robot models that do basic tasks reliably and really well — 90% accuracy in unseen, new New York apartments. IMO this unlocks longer trajectory research, where we dont have to to worry about most failures being on the basic building blocks anymore. As” / X

“ARK just released a report on humanoid robots “if humanoid robots are able to operate at scale, they could generate ~$24 trillion in revenues” Having talked to dozens of Fortune 500 companies, the size of this market is incomprehensible 

How ARK Is Thinking About Humanoid Robotics

Tech news: Drones piloted by AI could prevent wildfires | World Economic Forum

“Everyone wants to spend less time on housework. For robots to help with much of it, they need: a general-purpose design, to be capable, and to be safe. That’s why we’re making Isaac, the only personal robot that’s built for the home—and shipping next year. 

I Lived With a Humanoid Robot for 48 Hours – YouTube

“Adam: The First High-Biomimetic Humanoid Robot-Hardware Architecture Design. In June 2023, we designed the overall hardware architecture of Adam, proposing for the first time the use of a highly biomimetic human-like pelvis design. #Robotics #Technology #Robot #humanoid #AI 

“PNDbotics, a humanoid robotics startup from China, revealed ‘Adam’ 

“Waeve revealed Isaac, a versatile personal robot designed to help you with household chores. It responds to voice or text commands and can be programmed via an app. Weave plans on selling Isaac for $59,000 to its first customers in 2025. 

Google

“🔥 Hot release: Aloha unleashed World first demonstration of a robot able to tie shoelaces or hang t-shirts autonomously! They trained a diffusion policy at scale: 26,000 demonstrations over 5 tasks on Aloha 2 robot Retweet if you’d like them to open-source 😝 (video x4) 1/🧵 

Our latest advances in robot dexterity – Google DeepMind

Inside Google’s 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body | WIRED

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