Enlarge / In this still captured from a video provided by Nvidia, a simulated robot hand learns pen tricks, trained by Eureka, using simultaneous trials. reader comments 50 with On Friday, researchers from Nvidia, UPenn, Caltech, and the University of Texas at Austin announced Eureka, an algorithm that uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model for designing… Read More »
Enlarge / A Google robot controlled by RT-2. reader comments 17 with On Friday, Google DeepMind announced Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2), a “first-of-its-kind” vision-language-action (VLA) model that uses data scraped from the Internet to enable better robotic control through plain language commands. The ultimate goal is to create general-purpose robots that can navigate human environments,… Read More »
Enlarge / In a still from a DeepMind demo video, a researcher pushes a small humanoid robot to the ground. reader comments 42 with On Wednesday, researchers from DeepMind released a paper ostensibly about using deep reinforcement learning to train miniature humanoid robots in complex movement skills and strategic understanding, resulting in efficient performance in… Read More »
Enlarge / A robotic arm controlled by PaLM-E reaches for a bag of chips in a demonstration video. Google Research reader comments 12 with Share this story On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveiled PaLM-E, a multimodal embodied visual-language model (VLM) with 562 billion parameters that… Read More »
reader comments 68 with Share this story Last week, Microsoft researchers announced an experimental framework to control robots and drones using the language abilities of ChatGPT, a popular AI language model created by OpenAI. Using natural language commands, ChatGPT can write special code that controls robot movements. A human then views the results and adjusts… Read More »
Enlarge / An ABB industrial robot folding a shirt using AUTOLAB’s new “SpeedFolding” method. UC Berkeley AUTOLAB reader comments 40 with 34 posters participating Share this story While it’s possible that someone out there enjoys folding clothes, it’s probably not a beloved pastime. Accordingly, researchers at UC Berkeley’s AUTOLAB have developed a new robotic method… Read More »
Enlarge / Herbert Reul, Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, looks at Boston Dynamics’ robot police dog in January 2022. reader comments 62 with 49 posters participating Share this story Boston Dynamics and several other robotics companies have pledged not to weaponize “general purpose robots” according to an open letter released publicly on Thursday and first… Read More »
Enlarge / Ford is adding artificial intelligence to its robotic assembly lines. reader comments 32 with 22 posters participating Share this story In 1913, Henry Ford revolutionized car-making with the first moving assembly line, an innovation that made piecing together new vehicles faster and more efficient. Some hundred years later, Ford is now using artificial… Read More »
reader comments 35 with 27 posters participating Share this story Theresa Arevalo was in high school when she first tried finishing drywall at her brother’s construction company. “It’s a fine art,” she says of mudding—applying and smoothing drywall. “Like frosting a cake, you have to give the illusion that the wall is flat.” Fast-forward a… Read More »