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Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

4 months

We now have full end-to-end manipulation autonomy for more complicated tasks. Here's a demonstration of Apollo leveraging AI to make a fresh cup of juice in an end-to-end manner for #GTC2024 . A thread 🧵

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@servo_boyd

1 year

Blind walking is always a fun baseline period

Davide Faconti

@facontidavide

1 year

To all humanoid robotics startups announcing their VC funding round. Show me a video of your biped robot walking, and then we talk...

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Two finger robots be like

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E-Atlas is finally out. And I love the design so much. Better RoM, torque density, and form factor than any robot I've seen in a while. I'll be adding thoughts in this thread.

All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics

We are unveiling the next generation of humanoid robots—a fully electric Atlas robot designed for real-world applications. The new Atlas builds on decades of...

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@servo_boyd

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#icra2024 looks so full of life this year. Wish I could have made it out.

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@servo_boyd

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#GTC24 Learning to walk robustly with Apollo!

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@servo_boyd

7 months

-> Humanoid company posts video -> every other humanoid company posts a similar video because why not -> manipulation community emphasizes they did this a while back and question why their paper(s) didn't get more attention

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@servo_boyd

4 months

If you're gonna do layoffs. Just do it honestly and really think about the impact of the people being let go. Robotics is a small and passionate community.

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@servo_boyd

4 months

Adding Mercedes to our list of pilot partners! Humanoids continue to show close collaboration with the automotive industry. Apptronik : Mercedes Figure : BMW Agility : Ford Boston Dynamics : Hyundai Tesla : Tesla

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

4 months

Mercedes begins piloting Apptronik humanoid robots

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@servo_boyd

4 months

Ready for #Eclipse2024 viewing in Austin!

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@servo_boyd

5 months

While I question the validity of the source... I would like to expand the sample size for this. Apptronik QDH: 6 months Apptronik Apollo: 8 months Unitree H1: 6 months Agility Cassie: ~8 months Agility Digit: ~6-8 months ... if others would like to add their data. Please do.

Brett Adcock

@adcock_brett

5 months

this is interesting: someone compiled the timeline for getting to bipedal walking oftentimes ppl think 2-legged walking is the hardest part, this was true a decade ago but not anymore

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@servo_boyd

11 months

Check out the @freethinkmedia post to see @Apptronik Apollo doing some faster walking and getting disturbed.

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@servo_boyd

3 months

I don't know what the future holds for humanoids. But I hope at the very least we'll get a bunch of cracked robotics engineers out of it like the DRC era.

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@servo_boyd

4 months

Chef Apollo cooking up some fun AI content for y'all! #GTC2024

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@servo_boyd

3 months

There's a point of "little details" here. Concept is not hard. But the stepping and motions are noticeably less controlled. E.g look at the jitter in the robot as it stands. Here swing heights are smaller, timing shorter, and the CoM moves weird while transitioning.

Nathan Peterman

@NathanTylerP

3 months

Never heard of Booster Robotics before. The video description says something along the lines of "we wanted to try the electric Atlas getup motion because it didn't seem so difficult".

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@servo_boyd

3 months

It's always exciting to see new performant hardware. Especially when it aligns closely with existing manipulation paradigms. A 🧵on some notes:

Heeger

@GChongkai

3 months

Did anyone notice this? This is amazing! I think single-task robot manipulation is already completely solved through imitation learning.

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@servo_boyd

11 months

Congrats to @UnitreeRobotics for releasing today. Looks very familiar to what we did in 6 months last year. Excited to see where they will be in 1 year.

QDH Bringup Sample

Sampling of behaviors from bringing up QDH (Quick Development Humanoid). The robot was built and brought online in less than 4 months and serves as a testbed...

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@servo_boyd

3 months

Proud to say that we are no longer at the kids table 🎉

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@servo_boyd

2 months

Such an incredibly untasteful and ignorant post. Jerry has made so many incredible leaps in humanoid technology and has a well storied career.

Joseph 💎✌️🪑- Tesla Long Term Investor

@ShrimpTeslaLong

6 months

Figure CTO - Jerry Pratt. 20 years. Worked for "Institute for Human and Machine Cognition" and accomplished much? No. 11 years. Co-founded "Boardwalk Robotics". Did the bot get commercialized? No. 5 years. Interestingly, worked for a non-profit "Pensacola Mess Hall"? Chill

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@servo_boyd

17 days

Screw it. Here's APOLLO WITH THE CHAIR.

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@servo_boyd

3 months

It's so cute!!! I've always loved the kit-bash nature of hector. It's a good plaform to hack and play with.

LASER Robotics

@LASER_Robotics

3 months

Introducing HECTOR V2 - A dynamic mini-humanoid testbed to unlock the new limits of extreme dynamic behaviors! Visit for more details. #humanoid #robot #robotics #AI #EmbodiedAI #control #learning

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@servo_boyd

11 months

There's not a single thought going on in Apollos head. 😄

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@servo_boyd

6 months

Maybe we should post more teleop demos...

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@servo_boyd

2 months

Awesome to see more progress on quad->humanoid transfer with similar/the same RL stacks. This definitely builds behavioral confidence! I think the footstep placement/balance control could still use some tuning. The robot often gets stutter steps or deviates from nominal walking.

Ziwen Zhuang

@ziwenzhuang_leo

2 months

Introducing 🤖🏃Humanoid Parkour Learning Using vision and proprioception, our humanoid can jump over hurdles, and platforms, leap over gaps, walk up/down stairs, and much more. 🖥️Check our website at 📺Stay tuned for more videos.

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@servo_boyd

2 months

Looks great. Even if it becomes 2x it's a good deal showing what's possible. I am extremely doubtful about the pricing. That's less than any of their larger quadrupeds and they did something similar with H1 where they claimed sub 100k and it ended up being like 160k.

Unitree

@UnitreeRobotics

2 months

Unitree Introducing | Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent | AI Avatar Price from $16K 🤩 Unlock unlimited sports potential(Extra large joint movement angle, 23~34 joints) Force control of dexterous hands, manipulation of all things Imitation & reinforcement learning driven #Unitree #AI

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@servo_boyd

11 months

More humanoids? More humanoids...

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@servo_boyd

6 months

Respect to all the cool new things diffusion policies and similar works have done for manipulation. But too many companies are starting to post videos of teleop demos with open promises of Autonomy. The fact that policy and teleop videos keep getting mixed in demos is confusing

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@servo_boyd

3 months

I keep seeing companies making humanoids with scrawny arms. But the manipulation is more important than locomotion when it comes to making a platform that can do anything helpful.

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@servo_boyd

1 year

Maybe I should have called in sick to work today because I have some bird(leg) fever! 💚🐓💚 Awesome job and congrats on this milestone @agilityrobotics

Agility Robotics

@agilityrobotics

1 year

Get yourself a robot that looks this good on camera #Digit #NotARender

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@servo_boyd

11 months

Looking at all these new humanoids wondering if @agilityrobotics has any patent enforcement around their leg design.🤔

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@servo_boyd

3 months

Wow! I should submit this graphic to a "Find what's wrong" game. The amount of errors here are staggering.

Evan

@StockMKTNewz

3 months

The current landscape of humanoid robots 🤖

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@servo_boyd

4 months

No. The robots face is not upside down

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@servo_boyd

3 months

This is my understanding of the dofs. I'm leaning toward it being roatry+pullbar for the linear motions based off some contours and rod motions in video. But could still be linear for ankle/torso. Dotted lines represent offaxis motion.

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@servo_boyd

2 months

Robot poses are starting to get wild

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@servo_boyd

3 months

Gonna start with the elephant in the room. The 360 joint design. Namely for torso, neck, and thighs. While it's still in question if this it's research or product, the ability to spin its body will be extremely helpful for fast turning. Which is a major slowdown for humanoids.

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@servo_boyd

2 months

I'm so happy to see people floored by the price point of @UnitreeRobotics G1. It's the first major humanoid to show the price most humanoid companies have been seeing for the last few years now. The next few years will be wild as every company iterates.

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@servo_boyd

29 days

At long last. Time to see what we can run onboard out of the box and what drive code needs to be written from scratch for the iron ox robots with @GoddenThomas !

Thomas Godden

@GoddenThomas

2 months

The drive modules themselves come off with a bolted shaft cap, similar to the brake. Looks like there's a separate bolt-on plate to retain the drive shaft bearing.

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@servo_boyd

4 months

Impressive! But... as a former gymnast... that arm swing form is 😬. Should swinging the arms above the head to help with both height and rotation.

Unitree

@UnitreeRobotics

4 months

Unitree H1 The World's First Full-size Motor Drive Humanoid Robot Flips on Ground. Unitree H1 Deep Reinforcement Learning In-place Flipping ! #Unitree #UnitreeRobotics #AI #Robotics #Humanoidrobots #Worldrecord #Flips #EmbodiedAI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Innovation

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Core memory of mine from years ago was watching Atlas spew red oil all over the place before slowly dying an extremely anime death. Excited to see what comes next 👀

Farewell to HD Atlas

For almost a decade, Atlas has sparked our imagination, inspired the next generations of roboticists, and leapt over technical barriers in the field. Now it’...

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@servo_boyd

4 months

We'll be ready to take a tackle IRL.

Nathan Peterman

@NathanTylerP

4 months

Digit is playing king of the hill #GTC24

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@servo_boyd

4 months

@TeslaBotJournal Here's how Apptronik is moving forward with Nvidia to continue working with GROOT!

Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

4 months

We now have full end-to-end manipulation autonomy for more complicated tasks. Here's a demonstration of Apollo leveraging AI to make a fresh cup of juice in an end-to-end manner for #GTC2024 . A thread 🧵

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Thanks for coming by @BillGates . It was a pleasure showing you all our robots! 🤖❤️

The start-ups making robots a reality

Bill Gates explains the many use cases for robots in everyday life and profiles five start-ups and labs at the forefront of robotics innovation.

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@servo_boyd

1 month

Pretty wild accuracy

Abhishek Gupta

@abhishekunique7

1 month

So I hear that behavior cloning is all the rage now. What if we could do better, but with the same data? :) In CCIL, we show that imitation via BC is improved by synthesizing corrective labels to account for compounding error, without interactive oracles. Lets you do 👇! 🧵(1/9)

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1 year

At this point, the memes are starting to just make themselves. The zipper makes this one so much more practical! #OpenAI #ChatGPT #humanoid #Robots

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@servo_boyd

1 year

Humanoids nowadays be like...

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@servo_boyd

3 months

Fantastic breakdown from IEEE here:

Q&A: Boston Dynamics’ Robert Playter on The New Atlas

The robotics company’s CEO answers our questions about its new humanoid

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@servo_boyd

11 months

Them hams got me acting unwise #humanoid #Robots

Apollo Teaser

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@servo_boyd

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@facontidavide Robotics is not a get rich quick business. I don't think a lot of startups recognize this when they try to pace it like a software startup. Product scoping is super important when taking on investor promises.

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@servo_boyd

3 months

It seems like the problem is becoming less "what architecture are you using" and more "do you have a system with good data." I think we need better ways to transfer data between different robot types when it comes to manipulation policies.

Chris Paxton

@chris_j_paxton

3 months

"as long as there are enough parameters, and things are reasonably well-conditioned (i.e. a decent number of nonlinearities and and connections between the pieces) then it really doesn't matter how you arrange them, i.e. any sufficiently good architecture works just fine"

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1 year

Always fun to see new humanoids. Notes - Still pretty expensive (granted prototype) because actuation still hasn’t fundamentally changed. - No demonstration with realistically heavy objects - Main stability failure scenarios not shown (eg. crossed legs/blind height changes)

Tony Z. Zhao

@tonyzzhao

1 year

China's progress in humanoid robots deserves more attention. The video below has <300 views on YouTube, while the robot appears to be - more agile than @Tesla 's Optimus - more dexterous than @agilityrobotics 's Digit - (likely) a lot cheaper than both

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1 year

This is turning out to be quite the year for mobile manipulation autonomy.

Dhruv Batra

@DhruvBatraDB

1 year

Contemporary discussion (hype?) about LLMs and “pausing AGI development” seems oblivious of Moravec’s paradox. We’ve hypothesized since the 80s — that the hardest problems in AI involve sensorimotor control, not abstract thought or reasoning. It

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@servo_boyd

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@agilityrobotics Y'all should bring Digit to Humanoids 2023 so our robots can do a meet and greet 🙂

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@servo_boyd

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Simple and effective bimanual operation. If the HW is reliable and can hold some reasonable loads, I think there's good potential with it.

Reazon Human Interaction Lab

@ReazonHILab

3 months

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻𝗖𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁 is a low-cost and robust household collaborative robot. Check out our first teleoperated dual-armed prototype: chest-mounted control, arm elevation, mobile chassis, and lemons 🍋 (full video → )

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@servo_boyd

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Our robo wagon is one of the largest and best in the business 🍑

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@servo_boyd

3 months

@adcock_brett @GoingBallistic5 Got a source to back that?

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@servo_boyd

5 months

I want to hug Punyo so badly

Meet Punyo, TRI’s Soft Robot for Whole-Body Manipulation Research

At TRI, we’re developing robotic capabilities that amplify, rather than replace, people. We’re on a mission to help with everyday tasks that require more tha...

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@servo_boyd

3 months

Hands. Hands. Hands. 2 fingers is more than enough. 3 if you're fancy. Looks like they're keeping to the Barrett-like hands they were using for atlas, which will to just about any task you want while staying robust. Human hands are too prone to breaking.

BarrettHand™ — Barrett Technology

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@servo_boyd

3 months

Amazing work for pushing forward humanoid benchmarking

Dynamic Robotics and AI Laboratory

@osudrl

3 months

✨🤖 Robust Standing and Walking: a highly robust humanoid walking controller. We introduce benchmarks for quantitatively measuring the capabilities of walking controllers. The results are not trivial, emphasizing why objective measurements are important for our field. ⬇️

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@servo_boyd

2 months

One of my favorite papers from this last year.

Yunho Kim

@awesomericky99

2 months

Our paper is now published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics ( @IeeeTro )! Paper:

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@servo_boyd

3 months

Bending the torso and hips like that will be very helpful from a fall recovery context.

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@servo_boyd

4 months

Humanoids are doing a bunch of awesome work nowadays. Can't wait to see more exciting demo's in March.

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@servo_boyd

11 months

Somebody please explain to me how less than 1 day of filming to make a planned announcement that you actually have a functional product is a significant detriment to "pushing the main robot quality."

Brett Adcock

@adcock_brett

11 months

and so it begins

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@servo_boyd

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@KyleMorgenstein Convex Optimization has remained one of the most helpful classes in my career. So many problems in Robotics can be formulated as Convex problems. If the professor is good, you'll reuse code from it for a long time.

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@servo_boyd

4 months

@SmokeAwayyy Here's a full take of our demo for GROOT!

Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

4 months

We now have full end-to-end manipulation autonomy for more complicated tasks. Here's a demonstration of Apollo leveraging AI to make a fresh cup of juice in an end-to-end manner for #GTC2024 . A thread 🧵

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@servo_boyd

3 months

Still one of my favorite animated launch sequences

クロユリ

@swordfish2385

3 months

信じられるか？もうすぐ40年経つんだぞ #このシーンが神すぎて溺愛してる映画

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The motions are lifelike. But I'm honestly just as mesmerized by the exquisite material and paint jobs used for the costumes and skin. Curious how robust they are to wear & tear.

Scott Gustin

@ScottGustin

4 months

NEW: Disney showcased the new Audio-Animatronics figures coming to Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resort in the first episode of “We Call It Imagineering,” an all-new series from Walt Disney Imagineering that premiered today on YouTube.

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@servo_boyd

1 year

Sneaky side chest shot of our newest humanoid!

Apptronik

@Apptronik

1 year

Thanks @IsabelCGuzman , Administrator of @SBAgov , for stopping by to see a demo of Apollo, our General Purpose Humanoid Robot, by CEO @jeffcardn . Special thanks to @JoshuaBaer and @CapitalFactory for hosting Apptronik's private showing of Apollo at SXSW.

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@servo_boyd

11 months

"Best in industry" = "stolen from a good open source repository" more and more nowadays

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@servo_boyd

1 year

@roboticseabass Pinocchio is great! One of the best dynamics libraries out there for robots. Fast and Accurate. I also highly recommend the robotics winter school that MEMMO put out that involves it:

[memmows] Motion primitives. Part 1

Motion primitives. Part 1Sylvain Calinonhttps://memmows.sciencesconf.org/

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@servo_boyd

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@BillyZelsnack I'd say 5kg payload per arm and 6DoF is the minimum to be useful.

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4 months

Breaking down what you see in the video. Behaviors are learned from a teleoperated human demonstrator. We process the camera, hand pose, and grasp state to train a library of closed-loop dexterous manipulation behaviors. A task executor then decides which behavior to run.

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@servo_boyd

3 years

@akanazawa Probably because they started, but didn't know how to :q

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Astute viewers may notice that we don't need to return to a "home" position with the arms to start a new action. It's something you may notice on other robots. Instead, our lower level planning/control handles l blending between behaviors to minimize human demonstrations per task

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@servo_boyd

1 year

Honestly, for how affordable that robot looks, I am quite impressed by how ?natural? It’s motions are

T.Yamazaki

@ZappyZappy7

1 year

ディズニーがSXSWでローラーブレードができる新しいロボットを披露🐰 #robotics #animatronic #characters #rollerblade #DisneyParks #art #science #storytelling #SXSW2023

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I don't think they would commit to such a reversible design if they didn't have a REALLY good custom slip ring design that actually scales. They'd have to be works of art and manufacturable. Either that or it's very careful multi-turn coils of wiring with good software checks.

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@roboticseabass Drake, Crocoddyl, and OCS2 all have some form of support for it via FCL. FCL is still one of the more performant and well supported options to calculate signed distance.

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@servo_boyd

3 months

Exciting to see @ToyotaResearch staying on top of the game.

Sedrick Keh

@sedrickkeh2

3 months

📢 Releasing TRI's open-source Mamba-7B trained on 1.2T tokens of RefinedWeb! Mamba-7B is the largest fully recurrent Mamba model trained and is a state-of-the-art recurrent LLM. 🚀🚀🚀

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@servo_boyd

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"This is my OSHA compliant railgun" is probably one of my favorite things I've heard at Open Sauce so far

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@servo_boyd

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@ChongZitaZhang @YouJiacheng @simonkalouche did some good experiments to show some of the pro/cons and limits of SEA vs QDD. His thesis remains a great resource almost a decade later.

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@servo_boyd

1 year

A lot of robotics is just non-deterministic game development. So use game engine frameworks more...

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@servo_boyd

2 months

Well deserved

Ted Xiao @ ICML 2024

@xiao_ted

2 months

Open X-Embodiment wins the Best Paper Award at #ICRA2024 🎉🤖! An unprecedented Best Paper 170+ author list (most didn’t fit on the slide) may be a record for ICRA! So amazing to see what a collaborative community effort can accomplish in pushing robotics + AI forward 🚀

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@servo_boyd

4 months

@agilityrobotics You're missing a couple other robots in there to tackle off a hill.

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@servo_boyd

6 months

Stats tell me that teleop videos with humanoid upper bodies are getting traction?

Apptronik Astra Compilation

Compilation video of LSA doing different tele-operated tasks.

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@servo_boyd

7 months

@KyleMorgenstein BRB gonna make an AI Breakthrough tomorrow after I finish compiling some open source code

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@servo_boyd

4 months

All behaviors are driven by NN visuomotor policies. Lower-level motion planners and controllers are then used to track the policy, handle transitions, and maintain posture. This strong behavioral baseline is a foundational need for more general purpose logic and task execution.

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Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

2 months

I guess they do add the disclaimer... That's marketing I guess...

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Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

3 months

Transmissions seem to be heavily ambidex/WAM cable drive inspired. Probably mostly custom motors. Curious to see what their manufacturing process is because cable drives are notoriously hard to make and manufacture at scale. IIRC 1 ambidex took days to tension with cables.

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Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

3 months

Design wise... I'm seeing some quadruped inspiration for sure. From body shape to some of the linkages. If they wanted to make this more manufacturable and reduce cost. They have a clear path. From what I can see, they may be able to support backpack-like add-ons.

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Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

3 months

Ryan Gosling: *Talking to a rock* Me: "he's literally me"

DiscussingFilm

@DiscussingFilm

3 months

Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s ‘PROJECT HAIL MARY’, starring Ryan Gosling, will release in 2026 in theaters. The film follows a man who wakes up from a coma afflicted with amnesia & soon remembers he was sent 12 light-years away from Earth to save humanity.

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Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

2 years

@agilityrobotics Anything Daft Punk 🎵

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Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

3 months

I like the Pixar lamp head. And the ring lights should also give consistent/good exposure and contrast for object detection because inverse square law.

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Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

9 months

@KyleMorgenstein @audrow @GoddenThomas @thegarrettscott @ethanblagg @athundt @williamstome Te-X-as Robotics meetup when?

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Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

4 months

One smooth brained chat-gpt command away from unionizing

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Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

4 months

The GOAT's of quadrupeds do it again. @rdn_nikita @2nisi and @HoellerDavid continue to impress.

Robotic Systems Lab

@leggedrobotics

4 months

🔥Exciting news 🤖 Our latest research by @HoellerDavid , @rdn_nikita , @2nisi in @SciRobotics unlocks new achievements: Unprecedented agility in quadrupedal robots, mastering locomotion, navigation, and perception through deep reinforcement learning! @NVIDIARobotics

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Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

3 months

Following on that backpack train of thought. Having a 360 yaw body means that if you have battery in front and backpack on back and you can easily rotate to access the battery.

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Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

6 months

@NathanTylerP I hear cooking is a prime target for overhype

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Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

4 months

@NathanTylerP Heartbreaking

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Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

4 months

As we already saw with @Figure_robot . You can do some incredible tasks when you have language models to interpret action execution. While we don't demo voice/text interactions, we are closer to it than some may give credit thanks to the recent progress in multimodal LLM'S.

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Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

3 months

Me: *Go to SF for business* Also Me: *Spend all extra time looking for buried treasure in Golden Gate park*

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Nathan Boyd 🐙

@servo_boyd

3 months

Scrum Masters signing off for the weekend be like

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