Hot airport take: I should be allowed one free beer for every hour the airplane is late. Two it’s a morning flight.

Always makes this platform seem “no fun allowed” when ppl do that

Tbh this makes more sense for a factory or warehouse than a humanoid.

In today's post, bees go down a controlled gradient flow to find their homes. 🐝🏠

hackmd.io/@clopenloop/...

End of an Era

South Korea's ROBOTIS Challenges Unitree G1’s Dominance with Open-Source Humanoid mikekalil.com/blog/robotis...

People are already shipping robots capable of end-to-end manipulation to consumers, and at the forefront is Weave Robotics -- you can order an Isaac to fold your laundry today. We talked about what it means to make an ai-enabled home robot as a product ->

robopapers.substack.com/p/ep74-weave...

After a busy start to the year, I have a new lecture to share. Generalist models have been making good progress, but #sim2real just works. In this lecture, I explain domain randomization, simulation limitations, and connections to generalization.

Imagine if they had one of these for Jersey Shore

Humanity lost the race-- autonomous humanoid robots can now run faster than the fastest human. Lets ignore that and watch this compilation of fails from Eren Chen of Booster

Reviewing papers on a Sunday was not my preferred plan for today...

Nice landing!

Introducing ✨Posed DROID✨, results of our efforts at automatic post-hoc calibration of a large-scale robotics manipulation dataset.

Try it out at: droid-dataset.github.io

Learn more at:
🌐 arXiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.12945
📄 Blog: medium.com/p/4ddfc45361d3

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The new foundation model from physical intelligence - pi-0.5 - works zero-shot in multiple homes. They tested at airbnbs around san fransisco. I also really love the robot design.

blog: www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi05

Nice way of describing how a #robot should generalize in a new setting using VLA approaches.

المسيح قام

The DBH quote about how religion comes to America to die always pops into my mind when thinking of American Christianity...

Ideally, when I unbox a new robot, I just want to teach it the way I would my kid, by giving it a couple demonstrations -- not by teleop, not by endless prompt engineering. So, how can we use human videos to teach robots how to perform tasks in new environments?

www.robot-learning.uk/r-plus-x

Honestly, no one should have to do this. Isn't this what robots and machines are for?

Really a failure of imagination by simpletons in the white house.

Wow! Did they open source this one too?

Blood Meridian is way more violent and gory than I had anticipated...

It def is all marketing

Ramadan Kareem to my Muslim friends!

If inference is good enough this could be great for robotics applications.

One thing I think a lot of tech enthusiasts will need to accept is that the idea of having separate CPU and RAM for small form factors is a thing of the past.

The benefits of bundling them are really outweighing having them separate.

I def see what he means. Lots of robotics researchers I talk to don't really "believe" the results coming from visomotor policies.

Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.

The Trump administration's efforts to slash research funding have US graduate students, postdocs and other early-career scientists fearing for their careers. Some might leave the country -- or abandon research altogether.

https://go.nature.com/43ao2zq

Time to label some data...

New golden age of reinforcement learning and this time it seems deserved (as someone who thought it was bs last time we did this)

I noticed gas going up too 😫 Trumps America...