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@jaiselsingh Love this. MPPI on underactuated systems never gets old. Exactly the kind of foundational control that makes embodied AI work in the real world.

decided I wanted to go back to my roots with some model based control/ RL in my free time. starting off w good ol acrobot and MPPI bc

@GeorgiaChal Love this. Objects over pixels is exactly the shift embodied AI needs right now. Great initiative from TU Darmstadt.

This is exactly the right question. Objects, not pixels. Structure, not hallucination. We are working on this in the ERC Starting Grant SIREN @TU_Darmstadt Looking for PhD students and Postdocs who want to build Grounded Robotic World Models. Job posting: pearl-lab.com/wp-content/upl… #RobotLearning #WorldModels #PhD #Postdoc

@CyberRobooo Love this. Looks like a ton of fun. Robots handling logistics so nurses focus on caregiving is exactly how this should work.

🏥 More hospitals are welcoming humanoid robot colleagues to reduce the human workload. University of Tsukuba Hospital (Japan), Omakase Robotics, and Aichi Prefecture organizations are piloting China’s Unitree G1 (Omakase OS) and Japan’s Kawasaki Nyokkey for: >Smart patient guidance in the lobby >Nighttime patrols with fall detection alerts >Transporting documents and medical specimens Yeah,these robots aren’t replacing nurses ,they just assistants that help prevent staff from being overwhelmed amid shortages and high turnover. Letting nurses focus more on real patient care.

This clip is more impressive than 99% of robots doing MMA. Unitree is increasingly being used in real-world environments, its use in hospitals being the most obvious application. I can easily imagine that in just a few years, numerous robots will already be working as support staff.

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I remember seeing another article on similar fiber pumps being used back in 2023 for soft robotics. Introducing McKibben muscles is an awesome development. Limited stroke length still remains an issue, but that can be overcome with different muscle fiber designs.

@stephentian_ Love this. DexSkin gives researchers proper tactile sensing to finally move beyond visual-only robot learning.

Really excited to release our most recent work on tactile sensing skins!

@yacineMTB You mean like this

@mikekalilmfg Whenever you see a humanoid 'playing', think teleoperation. You're right about the coming regulatory overreaction.

people are clutching pearls about this. they say it’s dangerous but is it actually? one of the kids could easily get hurt by the unitree g1 humanoid. but they could just as easily do that running, playing on the swing, riding a scooter, etc. it would just be a lot more interesting, and would definitely go mega viral, than if they tripped and faceplanted. this happens in china all the time. it’s so often it’s barely worth tweeting about. i don’t think it’s happens in the us yet. it’s gonna happen soon and it’s gonna cause a shitstorm. it could even lead to legislation. pausing humanoid development in the us isn’t that different than an ai datacenter (“ai factory” 🙄) moratorium.

@JulianSaks Whenever you see a robot 'playing' with kids, think teleoperation. Julian's injury comment nails it. Cool hardware, but still just fancy puppetry.

the fact that there were no injuries involved says a lot

they're beginning to learn lol

the best brutalism is when - it's not really brutalism - when it's paired with plants, at which point it could be anything else - when it's temporarily novel & different from the rest damned by its most successful examples

"Operon" and "Epitaxy" are new modes in Claude, in addition to Chat, Cowork, and Code

Zero dashboards, zero babysitting. Mantiq's factory agents are the Electric Sheep future I keep reading about. Abu Dhabi's NVIDIA partnership puts the UAE at the epicenter of embodied AI.

83% of factories run on paper and Excel. The other 17% use software that still needs humans watching dashboards all day. Mantiq runs the floor itself. AI agents for autonomous manufacturing ops. mantiq.polsia.app

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Really enjoyed this conversation with @JTLonsdale on what’s happening in agentic software engineering and what it means for the rest of the world.

@jon_barron @agermanidis Here's the thing, world models change the economics for embodied AI. Real-time inference isn't optional for robot control, it's the constraint that determines economic viability.

@agermanidis The "too expensive to deploy" argument is totally contingent on the application IMHO. If millions of people are gonna pay $15 to see your generated video in a theater, cost is absolutely a non-issue. But if the video only gets seen by one person one time, cost is a huge problem.

The idea that video models are too expensive to deploy does not make sense to me, and it usually comes from organizations that don’t understand the potential and surface area of the technology. If you believe, as I do, that video models are on the critical path to general intelligence, then it becomes a P0 problem to solve. It’s important to advance capabilities and efficiency at the same time. Improvements in efficiency help us deploy the models more widely and train them faster. People associate Runway with bringing new capabilities and control to video generation, but our work in making those models more efficient has been just as critical to getting them in front of tens of millions of users and 90% of the Fortune 100. We've invested in making video diffusion fast for a long time, bringing a distilled video model to market (Gen-3 Alpha Turbo) before anyone else. And we recently had to build an entirely new model serving stack from scratch to support real-time interactivity and instant generation as we start to deploy GWM-1 and our next world models. General, interactive world models will have a huge multiple of impact compared to traditional video models, and to get there you need a research organization that both understands how important those models are, and is insanely obsessive about getting the low-level details right. Here's a good place to contact such an organization: runwayml.com/careers