robotics and AI
- A glob of jelly can play Pong thanks to a basic kind of memorywww.newscientist.com A glob of jelly can play Pong thanks to a basic kind of memory
Researchers trained a polymer gel to play the computer game Pong by passing electric current through it and measuring the concentration of ions
- Food Service Robots Just Need the Right Ingredientsspectrum.ieee.org Food Service Robots Just Need the Right Ingredients
20 million meals later, Chef Robotics is making robotic food prep work
- Anthropic Researchers Map Features in Claude 3 Sonnet
Interesting research from Anthropic. I'm looking forward to reading follow-on work, and I really hope that this will be tested on open source models (like Mistral) to confirm the method.
- Learning to Fly in Seconds
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- OK-Robot: What Really Matters in Integrating Open-Knowledge Models for Roboticsok-robot.github.io OK-Robot: What Really Matters in Integrating Open-Knowledge Models for Robotics
OK-Robot is an open framework for zero-shot, natural language pick-and-drop system in arbitrary homes.
- Forget making coffee — Boston Dynamics puts Atlas to work lifting heavy automotive struts in latest flexwww.livescience.com Forget making coffee — Boston Dynamics puts Atlas to work lifting heavy automotive struts in latest flex
Boston Dynamics has released footage showing how its flagship Atlas humanoid robot would cope in a factory environment as it lifts heavy struts and puts them into a flow cart.
- This baby with a head camera helped teach an AI how kids learn languagewww.technologyreview.com This baby with a head camera helped teach an AI how kids learn language
A neural network trained on the experiences of a single young child managed to learn one of the core components of language: how to match words to the objects they represent.
- The Man Who Coined The Word "Robot" Defends Himselfspectrum.ieee.org The Man Who Coined The Word "Robot" Defends Himself
Karel Čapek explains what everyone has been getting wrong about his creation
- Mobile ALOHA: Learning Bimanual Mobile Manipulation with Low-Cost Whole-Body Teleoperationmobile-aloha.github.io Mobile ALOHA: Learning Bimanual Mobile Manipulation with Low-Cost Whole-Body Teleoperation
by Zipeng Fu*, Tony Z. Zhao* and Chelsea Finn at Stanford
- A Picking Robot for the Greenhouseyt.drgnz.club A Picking Robot for the Greenhouse
Working in a greenhouse is both strenuous and time-consuming. The picking robot from ETH spin-off Floating Robotics takes on particularly repetitive tasks, thereby alleviating the strain on human pickers. It is currently undergoing testing at Beerstecher AG in Hinwil. ETH Social Media Links: Faceb...
- Images altered to trick machine vision can influence humans toodeepmind.google Images altered to trick machine vision can influence humans too
In a series of experiments published in Nature Communications, we found evidence that human judgments are indeed systematically influenced by adversarial perturbations.
- How Autonomous Vehicles Could Help People with Disabilitieswww.scientificamerican.com How Autonomous Vehicles Could Help People with Disabilities
Self-driving cars could give people who live outside big cities and are unable to drive more mobility, but the technology must still overcome some hurdles
- "Flying dragon" robot harnesses the "crazy hose" effect to fight firesnewatlas.com "Flying dragon" robot harnesses the "crazy hose" effect to fight fires
Japanese researchers have created and open-sourced a flying firefighting hose that levitates and steers itself to fight fires using its own water pressure as a two-part propulsion system, spraying water down onto fires and keeping operators safe.
- Leonardo Da Vinci’s Self-Powered Cart — South East London Meccano Clubselmec.org.uk Leonardo Da Vinci’s Self-Powered Cart — South East London Meccano Club
A club for Meccano enthusiasts in London, holding four meetings each year and a public Meccano Show in Falconwood.
- Diffusion Policy: Visuomotor Policy Learning via Action Diffusiondiffusion-policy.cs.columbia.edu Diffusion Policy: Visuomotor Policy Learning via Action Diffusion
This paper introduces Diffusion Policy, a new way of generating robot behavior by representing a robot's visuomotor policy as a conditional denoising diffusion process. We benchmark Diffusion Policy across 12 different tasks from 4 different robot manipulation benchmarks and find that it consistentl...
- A computer scientist pushes the boundaries of geometrynews.mit.edu A computer scientist pushes the boundaries of geometry
MIT Professor Justin Solomon applies modern geometric techniques to solve difficult problems in a variety of areas, such as developing machine learning models that perform more accurately on target datasets and helping autonomous vehicles identify pedestrians.
- Why free will is required for true artificial intelligencebigthink.com Why free will is required for true artificial intelligence
Artificial general intelligence will not arise in systems that only passively receive data. They need to be able to act back on the world.
- [Free eBook] Deep Learning - Foundations and Conceptswww.bishopbook.com Deep Learning - Foundations and Concepts
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the central ideas that underpin deep learning. It is intended both for newcomers to machine learning and for those already experienced in the field.
- To Help Autonomous Vehicles Make Moral Decisions, Researchers Ditch the ‘Trolley Problem’news.ncsu.edu To Help Autonomous Vehicles Make Moral Decisions, Researchers Ditch the ‘Trolley Problem’
The goal of the new research is to help autonomous vehicles make “good” decisions.
- Dobb·E: An open-source, general framework for learning household robotic manipulationdobb-e.com Dobb·E: On Bringing Robots Home
Dobb·E is an open-source framework for teaching robots new household tasks in 20 minutes via imitation learning.
- Manchester researchers design and fly world’s largest quadcopter dronewww.manchester.ac.uk Manchester researchers design and fly world’s largest quadcopter drone
Engineers at The University of Manchester have built and flown the world’s largest quadcopter drone.The drone, made from a cardboard-like material called foamboard, measures 6.4m (21 ft) corner to corner and weighs 24.5kg – 0.5kg less than the weight limit set by the Civil Aviation Authority.The inn...
- Unlocking the Performance of Proximity Sensors by Utilizing Transient Histograms
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- AI system self-organises to develop features of brains of complex organismswww.cam.ac.uk AI system self-organises to develop features of brains of complex organisms
Cambridge scientists have shown that placing physical constraints on an artificially-intelligent system – in much the same way that the human brain has to
- Fourier GR-1: General-Purpose Humanoid Robotrobots.fourierintelligence.com Fourier Intelligence | Empowering You
傅利叶是谁?他是19世纪伟大的数学家,而21世纪的上海傅利叶智能科技有限公司则是工匠,科学家和艺术家们的组合。最好的公司,不是创始人们想要成立公司,而是创始人们想要改变整个世界。
- The mind’s eye of a neural network systemwww.purdue.edu The mind’s eye of a neural network system
In the background of image recognition software that can ID our friends on social media and wildflowers in our yard are neural networks, a type of artificial intelligence inspired by how own our brains process data. While neural networks sprint through data, their architecture makes it difficult to ...
- 'Student of Games' is the 1st AI that can master different types of games, like chess and pokerwww.livescience.com 'Student of Games' is the 1st AI that can master different types of games, like chess and poker
AI programs usually master either information-perfect games like chess or information-imperfect games like poker, but "Student of Games" is a general algorithm that can master both types.
- Robotics funding saw another dip in 2023 | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com Robotics funding saw another dip in 2023 | TechCrunch
In 2021, robotics startups were flying high. Unlike other categories that had buckled under the strains of a global pandemic, interest in automation was
- AI robotics' 'GPT moment' is near | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com AI robotics' 'GPT moment' is near | TechCrunch
Building AI-powered robots that can learn how to interact with the physical world will enhance all forms of repetitive work.
- In one Japanese city, kids can now send robots to school instead of going themselveswww.zmescience.com In one Japanese city, kids can now send robots to school instead of going themselves
Can this actually make a difference, though?
- Athletic, insect-scale long jumping robots reach where others can'tmechse.illinois.edu Athletic, insect-scale long jumping robots reach where others can't
Athletic, insect-scale long jumping robots reach where others can't