A scary humanoid robot is tearing through a jagged red paper hole on a white background. The robot has a surprised or intense expression. Its hands grip the edges of the torn background as if breaking through. The entire image has a slightly eerie and intense feel, with high contrast between the robot and the background
“Chinese company Pudu Robotics just announced their 1st-gen ‘semi-humanoid’, PUDU D7, intended for service and industrial settings. Height: 165 cm, weight: 45 kg, 30 degrees of freedom expandable to 50 with a hand attachment, lifts 10 kg, operates for 8 hours on a single charge.
“Disney Research and ETH Zurich presented ‘RobotMDM’, a method that combines diffusion-based motion generation with RL The new method allows the robot to essentially learn how to move from random motion data
“A future trillion dollar economy – Specialized Skill Models for your humanoid robot It is extremely likely for humanoid robots to be as widely adopted in the future as cell phones or cars. Just as the emergence of the smart phone brought about a massive app economy, I can see a
1X
“1X just developed an AI-powered virtual simulator for robots called ‘World Model’ It can predict complex object interactions and imagine multiple future scenarios to help robots better navigate the real world. Dishes and laundry will soon be chores of the past (!)
1X World Model
NVIDIA
NVIDIA/ROBOTS
“Foundation models have shaken up the digital world… but what about robotics? On this week’s Training Data, @stephzhan and I spoke to @DrJimFan about @Nvidia’s Project GR00T and his quest to build a generalist “foundation agent” that transcends skills, forms, and realities.
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