Looking fwd to speaking about robotics with Jagdeep Bachher, Pradeep Khosla, and Tara Sadjadpour at the #TiEcon2024 entrepreneurship conference on Friday
@ken_goldberg
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House AI Accelerator Extended Application Deadline and Perplexity Partnership
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It's not too late to apply for The House AI Accelerator! Extended application deadline is tomorrow / Sunday at midnight https://
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Ken Goldberg participates in Art and AI panel discussion
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Looking fwd to panel at 5pm today on Art and AI at show curated by @profjsb
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Data is All You Need: Large Robot Action Models and Engineering
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Looking fwd to presenting a new talk: "Data is All You Need: Large Robot Action Models and Good Old Fashioned Engineering" @Stanford Robotics Seminar on Friday: https://
stanfordasl.github.io/robotics_semin
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Bimanual robots need traditional engineering for reliability
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I agree Animesh: these are impressive bimanual tasks (esp repairing the robot gripper!) but we may need to incorporate some GOFE (good old fashioned engineering) into these systems to reach acceptable reliability levels… https://t.co/13d36G6cU0
— Ken Goldberg (@Ken_Goldberg) 16 avril 2024I agree Animesh: these are impressive bimanual tasks (esp repairing the robot gripper!) but we may need to incorporate some GOFE (good old fashioned engineering) into these systems to reach acceptable reliability levels…
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Cloud Robotics Hands-On Tutorial at ICRA24
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Dive into #CloudRobotics at the hands-on #ICRA24 Tutorial on 17 May! Led by academia & industry leaders Explore cutting-edge @ROSorg tools Get hands-on with #FogROS2 & @CloudGrippe
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Thanking MIT Tech Review for household robots and AI reporting
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TY @Melissahei for great reporting: @techreview @chelseabfinn @LerrelPinto @svlevine @berkeley_ai https://
technologyreview.com/2024/04/11/109
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Nvidia Validates Humanoid Robots With New Industry Initiative
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Thx @IBD_PSeitz for great reporting! How AI Powerhouse Nvidia Validates Humanoid Robots With New Initiative https://
investors.com/news/technolog
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New Project Ancient Wisdom Future Ecology AlphaGarden Sequel
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TY Dac4! Working on a new project with @tiffanyshlain for @GettyMuseum Pacific Standard Time and @skirball_LA called Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology. Btw, Our sequel to the TeleGarden (1995-2004) is AlphaGarden (2020-): https://
spectrum.ieee.org/robot-gardener https://
github.com/BerkeleyAutoma
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DBRX Open-Source LLM Model Surpasses Llama 2 and Mixtral
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Hats off to @Databricks on DBRX surpassing the two other open-source LLM models in evaluations! DBRX has 136B parameters, Llama 2 has 70B Mixtral has 45B. Go Bears!