Hans Peter Brondmo

🤖 “We get to build the future that we want. We make choices about what that future looks like. And we can choose things that are beautiful and fascinating.” 🎧 Tune into Episode 5 of the Moonshot Podcast, exploring the future of robotics: x.company/moonshotpodcas…

Attention: will the owner of a small blue planet with tectonic plates please attend to your vehicle. It is overheating.

🧵 In early 2016, @brondmo joined Google X, Alphabet’s secret innovation lab as ​​head of the company’s AI-powered robotics moonshot. He needed to figure out what to do with the employees and tech left over from 9 robot companies that Google had acquired. wired.trib.al/T5gAyoF

Game on! I'm announcing my candidacy for president of the USA with my MAKA - Make America Koselig Again - platform. It builds on my Norwegian heritage. Koselig translates roughly as cozy, pleasant, intimate, warm... Now wouldn't that be nice!

At the intersection of art, science and technology there is a space where the unexpected, the beautiful, the provocative and sometimes the magical can emerge. @PBS new series, Confluence, explores this intersection. @brondmo/using-ai-to-teach-robots-how-to-dance-99ca21cf64e8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@brondmo/using… #dance #confluence #robots #ai

@martinvars Ah, but this cannot be true. Where else do people eat rotten, fermented fish than Northern Europe! ;-)

I always thought Northern European food was so so. Now I found proof. Not even the locals eat their own food.

One Robot Per Child - Just wait till AI gets a body in the real world. Exploring some out-of-the-box thought experiments for how we'll deal with the physical manifestation of AI. link.medium.com/GQWCJaWsgIb

@chrismichel Here's one back at you: "To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life." - Viggo Mortensen

@chrismichel Beautiful picture. And love the quote.

Google’s Gemini issue is not really about woke/DEI, and everyone who is obsessing over it has failed to notice the much, MUCH bigger problem that it represents. (1/n)

Poor Bard. It just got a cool new image generation feature, but doesn’t know it. 🤓

ChatGPT, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI

@julianibarz So why do humanoid now? I get that it's a fun, challenging and rich research problem. Yet why prioritize that form-factor when it so complicates and siphons resources away from the goal of getting functioning robots deployed performing real tasks among real people.

@brondmo the reason humanoid robotics is hard is not just because it's hard in one dimension, it's hard because you have to innovate in many dimensions and make everything work well together. One needs to tackle organizational and technical complexity together.

1/ Nice mechatronics demo. AND, I am not impressed. All it looks like is another remote controlled, or scripted walking robot. @BostonDynamics has been doing these kind of demos for almost two decades, performing much more impressive physical feats than this.

@julianibarz Yes for sure, and it boils down to a question of priorities. The focus should be on getting the first, nominally useful multi-purpose robot into deployment asap. That's how we learn. Fingers, much like legs, will surely be helpful one day, but not necessary to begin the journey.

@brondmo There's a huge amount of challenge on the hardware, especially the hands as well as making things work well together. The complexity increases 10 fold if you also want to make it mass manufacturable and cheap. It's not just an AI problem.

5/ This said, I have A LOT of respect for @julianibarz and I know he knows what the real challenges in making autonomous robots that work safely alongside people, is to understand and act in the messy world we humans live in. It's 97% an AI+infra challenge, 3% mechatronics.

4/ Since Tesla has been practicing "self driving" for a while, they may have some useful tech and learning to apply. Yet even building a self-driving car is "easy" compared to making autonomous robots that can perform a multitude of helpful tasks in unstructured environments.