I think we agree about scaling and overly optimistic claims, but I don’t agree with your assertion that “Robotics is 100% a RL/sim challenge”.
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Korea leads world with highest industrial robot to worker ratio
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Korea employs 1 industrial robot for every 10 human workers, the highest density in the world (3.5x more than the US). https://
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Ken Goldberg Celebrates Maya Man’s Feminist AI Art Project
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Super proud of @mayaonthenet !
“Man and Hirsch trained a generative adversarial network (GAN) on a series of dolls…which Man sees as representing ‘peak aspirational femininity’.” https://
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Primary Care Physicians: AI Diagnosis and Relationship-Centered Medicine
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“Primary care is….about relationships – understanding the broader context of a person’s life, recognizing patterns over time, and showing up during life’s most vulnerable moments….” AI Diagnosis: A Primary Care Physician's Perspective https://
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Robot Data: Continuous and High-Dimensional Compared to Vision and Language
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And compared with vision and language data, robot data is continuous and high dimensional.
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Robot Data Scale Compared to Language Models: A Significant Gap
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Maybe, but I wouldn’t use the word “soon”: The data in Llama 3 is approx 80,000 times greater than the data collected by π in a year. And compared with vision and language date, robot data is continuous and high dimensional.
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Critique of Article on Foundation Models and Robot Learning
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Interesting article but the author drank the Kool-Aid and never sought out other viewpoints: “Foundation models like GPT-4 have largely subsumed [previous methods] and dexterity will probably soon be subsumed, too.” A Revolution in How Robots Learn.
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UC Berkeley funding and investors support Ambi Robotics growth
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Choreobotics: Technology Explores New Dimensions of Human-Robot Interaction
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“We are creating a new mode of installation, utilizing technology to express a richer, deeper idea about robotics and human interaction.” @catiecuan The Moving New World of Choreobotics | SF/Arts
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Humanoids Are Not Ready for Warehouses
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[Humanoids] have long been the robotic holy grail in science fiction… But to Ms. Miller, they aren't ready for warehouse work, and she would prefer that engineers develop devices that can handle specific tasks well, quickly and affordably.