Physical AI is here. At Robust AI we have developed the foundations for physical robots that do real work in real installations, and we have deployed them in both factories and warehouses. One key is to make them aware of humans so that they play nice, another is zero integration
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AI Hype Cycle Damages Real Innovation and Inflates Valuations
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The AI hype cycle is damaging real innovation across tech. It is crazy FOMO having negative impact on the world as we move forward. "AI is artificially inflating valuation numbers across venture: The segment captured nearly 50% of all deal value in Q2. But flat and down rounds
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Robot Hand Design History: Learning from Past Failures
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@chr1sa it might be interesting for some of these youngsters to review hundreds of robot hand designs over the last 50 years. None of these ideas are new. Knowing where each of them failed would point to where innovations are needed. Not as good for funding/valuations by
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IEEE Spectrum Republishes Three Laws of Robotics Blog Post
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@IEEESpectrum picked up on my blog post explaining my three laws of robotics and republished it. Thank you! And especially for the 12 year old photo of me — actually I still feel decades younger than that! -
Rodney Brooks’ 40-Year Journey from Stanford to MIT
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August 40 yrs ago I left my Stanford faculty position and joined the MIT faculty, still (barely) in my 20s. Had just co-founded AI software co in Palo Alto, so had $100K workstation to work on that in my $140K Lexington MA house. It had 1MB of RAM. Be restless! Be fearless!
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Three Laws of Artificial Intelligence Explained
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2/2 And one to explain my three laws of Artificial Intelligence: https://
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Rodney Brooks Explains His Three Laws of Robotics
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1/2 I have posted two blog items today. One to explain my three laws of robotics: http://
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Tesla Robotaxi Delay: Rodney Brooks Expresses Sarcastic Shock
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I am shocked that Tesla robotaxi day as been delayed from when it was promised. Shocked, I tell you!
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Warehouse Robots and LLMs: Rodney Brooks Interview
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I was interviewed for this story a few weeks ago. The headline is not what I would have written, but the content about warehouse robots, and how LLMs are not the key to making them better, is what I was explaining.
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Scaling limits in LLMs and the problem of exponentialism
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This is good explanation and worth reading on how scaling always runs out in the real world. And in this particular case how it applies to the reality of LLMs. In my seven deadly sins of AI prediction I refer to it as "exponentialism".