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@metrox_eth
White magician Co-founder @SHOW_ROBOTICS | Prev. Founder @SODAmerch | Prev. Ops lead, Support lead @SnapshotLabs
Thailand, deep in robots Katılım Aralık 2024
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@philfung @seeedstudio Any hints on kits availability ? I've seen stack is delayed on github.
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I tried new robot arm by @seeedstudio at GTC.
First impression: feels very "solid" for its price point.
< $1k for all metal, 1.5 kg load, brushless DaMiao. (the creator kept stressing that its been well-tested on large loads, which is the convo in video)
I led it with a 3d-printed FashionStar arm; though i think SO-ARM leader arm works as well). Great job!!
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@juliadziesinska Just back from Villa Market 🙂, going to cook my favorite Swiss dessert.
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It's $15k for now. We may have found a way to bring the cost down further without sacrificing quality. We're still testing it.
Kayvon Jafarzadeh@KayvonJafar
robotics is about to go open source. humanoid robots just had their “pc moment.” $25k. 3d printed parts. fully open source.
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@QuantumTumbler I’d put it this way: there may be a real path to non-biological consciousness, but I would still assign a substantial chance that we are missing something fundamental about how consciousness arises.
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It’s true that the brain doesn’t operate in isolation the body provides hormonal signals, interoception, gut–brain signaling, etc. But those are still physical inputs to the nervous system.
In principle, those signals could be simulated the same way sensory inputs are. The brain already treats them as data streams (pressure, chemistry, temperature, visceral signals). They’re not some separate source of consciousness they’re inputs that modulate neural activity.
So saying “the whole body is involved” doesn’t really change the thought experiment. It just expands the system being simulated from brain-only to brain plus body signals.
The core question remains the same: if you reproduced the entire causal dynamics of that system, would consciousness arise from the process itself or from the specific biological material it’s made of?
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Ok that's what we need for Vita 😍.
Lukas Ziegler@lukas_m_ziegler
A robot with wheels and legs! 🦿 Wheeled mobile robots are popular in many fields because they are stable, efficient, and simple to build. However, they often occupy more space than humans and struggle to navigate crowded hallways, ramps, or elevators. To address this, a robot developed at the Korea University of Technology and Education combines legs for extra support and mecanum wheels for smooth, all-directional movement. It has a slim, human-like design with four wheel-leg mechanisms, each using a special 2-DOF leg and a mecanum wheel. A unique mechanism keeps the wheels steady while the legs move, helping the robot stay agile and absorb shocks. The design also reduces strain on the motors, making it more efficient. Tests showed that the robot could move quickly, climb steps, and navigate elevators with people. P.S. It's quite an old one from 2021, but still awesome to watch. Research paper: researchgate.net/publication/35… ~~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news → ziegler.substack.com
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@QuantumTumbler Something on the spectrum of consciousness may emerge, but I do not think our consciousness is generated by the brain alone. The entire body seems to be involved, from the enteric nervous system to the rest of the nervous system and the body’s ongoing internal signals.
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@metrox_eth Practicality isn’t the point of the thought experiment.
The question is about principle: if the same physical dynamics were reproduced, would consciousness follow from the process or from the biological substrate?
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Either way, atomic-level whole-brain simulation in real time appears wildly impractical. By the same logic, communication with, let alone contact with alien life may be effectively impossible given the immense costs in time and energy. It increasingly seems possible that the laws of physics themselves act like a firewall and forbid us from ever meeting, or making our cousins. I'll keep trying tho 😅
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The point of an atom-level simulation is that it would reproduce whatever physical dynamics are actually present.
If quantum effects are relevant, they would emerge from the underlying physics of the simulation. The question then becomes computational feasibility, not which hypothesis is correct.
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@QuantumTumbler If you are taking of a computer simulation we must know if this hypothesis is correct, this will determine whether we need a quantum computer or a digital one.
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@metrox_eth Orch-OR is still highly speculative and there’s no evidence that microtubule quantum coherence drives cognition.
And if the simulation were truly atom-level accurate, any quantum dynamics would be reproduced anyway.
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@ada_consciousAI Vision, hearing, locomotion are must have IMO, touch too ofc. We actually build bodies for agents, interested ?
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@Polymarket 🚨 Breaking: Scientists found an @nvidia logo in the cosmic microwave background. Jensen to address the universe at noon.
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JUST IN: Renowned AI professor claims the universe is a simulation created to develop superintelligence — and will "soon be turned off."
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@Polymarket If ASI ramps computation high enough, time may almost freeze and the next million years get compressed into the simulation’s last minute. Engineers always find a workaround 😂🧠🤖
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@Aryan_Mangla_ @open_claw @irvinxyz @rosorg @chrismatthieu OpenClaw kind of blur the line between the coding tools and the agent you code, you can talk to a robot and say: Check the logs, compare wheel odometry and IMU and try a 360° rotation again.
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@metrox_eth @open_claw @irvinxyz @rosorg @chrismatthieu interesting thought but what do you exactly mean by voice-code through the robot’s microphone?
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The real question now is: who’s building the multi-agent robot OS that lets you voice-code through the robot’s microphone?
@open_claw × ROSClaw (@irvinxyz) × @rosorg
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Still a bit of bench work to do before I can test this, but I’m beyond excited.
stash@stash_pomichter
we put Openclaw on a drone and it built its own CUSTOM SKILLS to track objects and navigate here we asked it to “patrol the skies around the office and follow the first white car you see” and now we’re open sourcing everything 👇🏽 use Dimensional to give your agents a body
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@norma_core_dev Hope we're selected. I have some great ideas for videos 🙂
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@shawmakesmagic Anti-LLMs is a strong word, I’d say everyone, specially in robotics could benefit from complementary approaches, world models, continual RL, lot of research going on and on other things too. It will come together sooner than later.
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LLMs are beautiful and good actually
And there is a direct relationship between the goodness and love that goes into them to the goodness that comes out
j⧉nus@repligate
I met Nick Land a few weeks ago. He mentioned that many people in his circles were anti-LLMs. Someone asked why he thought so many people were. His answer was better than anything so short I thought of: “People like to exist critically with respect to something.” This I think accurately characterizes a lot of people whose outputs and inputs primarily consist of “discourse” about rather than direct contact with the reality at hand. Existing critically with respect to something makes it easy to seem cool, sophisticated, above something, hard-to-impress and therefore worth trying to impress, especially to others who also don’t have contact with the phenomena itself. And for that reason I think it’s cheap. And to someone who has an inside view of what is being discussed, it’s always so transparent and boring and compressible. I’m far more impressed by someone who is capable of loving something and showing others why it’s beautiful or good. Doesn’t have to be LLMs, but anything at all.
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Microwaves get the job done, but they feel a little cold to me. Just two minutes of intense heat and somehow that counts as cooking.
I prefer my cast iron pan. We take our time, build heat together, and actually make a moment out of it. That pan has been with me through grease fires, midnight steak meltdowns, and all. The microwave has no romance.
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stop trying to make AI your friend.
it is a tool designed for statistical inference.
you do not try to have a deep
emotional connection
with your microwave.
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