A lot of these design decisions were learned from deploying and supporting Spot. And FWIW, internally a lot of us had qualms about the aesthetic too — but it’s hard to argue with how easy this design makes *everything*, whether manufacturing or safety or controls
Nikhil Devraj retweeted
We’re making great progress with our Gemini Robotics work in bringing AI to the physical world - a critical aspect of AGI. As part of our next steps, super excited to announce our partnership with @BostonDynamics, combining our SOTA robotics models with their world-class hardware
Google DeepMind 🤝 @BostonDynamics
Our new research partnership will bring together our advancements in Gemini Robotics’s foundational capabilities to their new Atlas® humanoids. 🦾
Find out more → goo.gle/49paguA
Love seeing RL robustness demos, these tasks are impressive
Nikhil Devraj retweeted
Today I’m proud to share what I’ve been working on recently with my team at @BostonDynamics along with our collaborators at @ToyotaResearch .
bostondynamics.com/blog/larg…
Nikhil Devraj retweeted
Atlas is demonstrating reinforcement learning policies developed using a motion capture suit. This demonstration was developed in partnership with Boston Dynamics and @rai_inst.
every time I stay in the office at night I’m simultaneously pleased and terrified by the robots constantly strolling right behind me
Nikhil Devraj retweeted
Atlas is autonomously moving engine covers between supplier containers and a mobile sequencing dolly, using ML to detect and localize the environment fixtures and individual bin. There are no prescribed or teleoperated movements. youtu.be/F_7IPm7f1vI
Already know some cheeky grad student is gonna use “Concepts of a Plan” as part of their next paper’s title
The fact that context was added to this video is interesting. in the limit, it should make no difference to a user whether a robot is being teleoperated or moving autonomously if it gets its job done. that *should* only matter to the seller
In last week's S3 @1x_tech shared their plans to quickly deploy Neo, their new robot, in homes.
So I asked if they'd put Neo in my home.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
It’s important to note that some(or all) actions Neo made in this video were not AI but tele-operated. x.com/jasonjoyride/s…
Vaguely amusing that the “foundation model” term stuck even after everyone on twitter said they weren’t gonna let that 100 author paper released by Stanford define the discourse
it’s so nice to have friends who will do what they can to push you out of your local minima even when they’re far too busy to. I wanna pay all those acts forward tenfold
Nikhil Devraj retweeted
Can't trip Atlas up! Our humanoid robot gets ready for real work combining strength, perception, and mobility.
demand for this is probably low but it would be nice if there were publicly available robots that could be “rented” by hobbyists/independent researchers/engineers/robotics software orgs when they aren’t being used
(And if there are, lmk where)