"Why don't we have better robots yet?": just posted on the @TEDTalks home page under Newest Talks (3rd row from the top) with links to @PieRobotics and @Forbes article on art by Ben Wolff @creativecellist @Berkeley_AI @UCBerkeley @Cal_Engineer http://
TED.com
@ken_goldberg
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Why Don’t We Have Better Robots Yet? New TED Talk Posted
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IROS Deadline Tonight? Consider IEEE CASE Conference Instead
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To fellow robotics and automation researchers scrambling to make the IROS deadline tonight: also consider submitting to IEEE CASE (in Triest Italy) w/ deadline in 10 more days!
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Vision-Language-Action Learning in Robotics: Progress Discussion
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TY David for a very fun discussion about the state of the art in robotics, including new developments in robot vision-language-action learning, and why progress is not exponential!
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Lachy Launches Physical Intelligence with Expert Roboticists Team
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Congrats Lachy on launching @Physical_Int (π.com ) with a stellar team of roboticists!
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Physical Intelligence builds AI software to power learning robots
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Great name! “Physical Intelligence (pi) is building software intended to power robots that can learn a wide range of tasks.” https://
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2024-03-12/physical-intelligence-is-building-ai-for-robots-backed-by-openai?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter
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AGI Definition Problem: I Know It When I See It
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So AGI is like pornography: https://
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putes/movie-day-at-the-supreme-court-or-i-know-it-when-i-see-it-a.html
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UC Berkeley and AUTOLab celebrate major achievement
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Congratulations! Go Bears! @UCBerkeley @AUTOLab_Cal
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Robot Advances in Needle Grasping and Transfer Tasks
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Axel Krieger from
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OpenAI Sora Team Members Are UC Berkeley BAIR Lab Graduates
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The @OpenAI core team behind #Sora, Tim Brooks (
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Robotics Approaching Its GPT Moment, Y Combinator Seeks Software Tools
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#1 topic requested by @ycombinator is #Robotics: "Robotics hasn't yet had its GPT moment, but we think it’s close…. We're interested in people building software tools to help other people to make robots: