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Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November 2024, NANCY, FRANCE
Get pleasure from as we speak’s movies!
Swiss-Mile’s robotic (which is absolutely any robotic that meets the {hardware} requirement to run their software program) is quicker than “most people.” So what does that imply, precisely?
The winner right here is Riccardo Rancan, who doesn’t appear to be he was attempting particularly arduous—he’s the world champion in high-speed city orienteering, which is a sport that I didn’t know existed however sounds fairly superior.
[ Swiss-Mile ]
Thanks, Marko!
Oh good, we’re constructing big fruit fly robots now.
However severely, that is helpful and necessary analysis as a result of understanding the connection between a nervous system and a bunch of legs can solely be useful as we ask increasingly more of legged robotic platforms.
[ Paper ]
Thanks, Clarus!
Watching humanoids stand up off the bottom won’t ever not be fascinating.
[ Fourier ]
The Kepler Forerunner K2 represents the Gen 5.0 robotic mannequin, showcasing a seamless integration of the humanoid robotic’s cerebral, cerebellar, and high-load physique features.
[ Kepler ]
Diffusion Forcing combines the power of full-sequence diffusion fashions (like SORA) and next-token fashions (like LLMs), performing as both or a mixture at sampling time for various functions with out retraining.
[ MIT ]
Testing robotic arms for area isn’t any joke.
[ GITAI ]
Welcome to the Modular Robotics Lab (ModLab), a subgroup of the GRASP Lab and the Mechanical Engineering and Utilized Mechanics Division on the College of Pennsylvania beneath the supervision of Prof. Mark Yim.
[ ModLab ]
That is far more amusing than it has any proper to be.
Let’s go for a stroll with Adam at IROS’24!
[ PNDbotics ]
From Reachy 1 in 2023 to our newly launched Reachy 2, our grippers have been designed to boost precision and dexterity in object manipulation. A number of the fashions featured within the video are prototypes used for numerous checks, displaying the innovation behind the scenes.
[ Pollen ]
I’m undecided how else you’d effectively spray the tops of timber? Drones seem to be a no brainer right here.
[ SUIND ]
Offered at ICRA40 in Rotterdam, we present the challenges confronted by cellular manipulation platforms within the area. We at CSIRO Robotics are working steadily in the direction of a collaborative method to deal with such difficult technical issues.
[ CSIRO ]
ABB is finest recognized for arms, however it seems to be like they’re exploring AMRs for warehouse operations now.
[ ABB ]
Howie Choset, Lu Li, and Victoria Webster-Wooden of the Manufacturing Futures Institute clarify their work to create specialised sensors that enable robots to “really feel” the world round them.
[ CMU ]
Columbia Engineering Lecture Collection in AI: “How May Machines Attain Human-Stage Intelligence?” by Yann LeCun.
Animals and people perceive the bodily world, have frequent sense, possess a persistent reminiscence, can purpose, and might plan complicated sequences of subgoals and actions. These important traits of clever conduct are nonetheless past the capabilities of as we speak’s strongest AI architectures, equivalent to Auto-Regressive LLMs.
I’ll current a cognitive structure that will represent a path in the direction of human-level AI. The centerpiece of the structure is a predictive world mannequin that permits the system to foretell the implications of its actions. and to plan sequences of actions that that fulfill a set of aims. The aims might embody guardrails that assure the system’s controllability and security. The world mannequin employs a Joint Embedding Predictive Structure (JEPA) skilled with self-supervised studying, largely by commentary.
[ Columbia ]
