K-Scale Labs weekly update 09/03/2024 Community Hackathon Spotlight

wild future, so many robots

Hah! PNDbotics was one frame too late on blurring our their new hand. The resolution is still too low to discern very much, but some hints 4 fingers, one thumb. At least two knuckles each, maybe 3 Looks like a roll-pitch-yaw wrist Distance from elbow to wrist center seems

Sanctuary AI is focusing solely on industrial applications for its humanoid robot. The CEO believes that privacy and safety issues for home use are virtually impossible to overcome now and for the foreseeable future.

Both were unveiled last month. Although Figure 02 is only 1 inch taller than NEO, it weighs 133% more.

I wrote about the privacy aspect years ago in the various papers required for participating in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE. The gist.. The operator sees a privacy curated view of the world. Any privacy details can be replaced, censored, erased BEFORE the data leaves the robot. Also.

1x's CEO Bernt Børnich explained their approach to developing a general-purpose artificial brain. ⦿ The bifurcation of System-1 and System-2 thinking is essential, but they must work together. The high-level model (System-2) would also need relevant training data to understand

Andrej Karpathy: Tesla is a robotics-at-scale company. A lot of technology components and expertise in building cars and FSD directly transfer to developing Optimus.

Source: youtube.com/watch?v=hM_h0U…

The Humanoid Hub Very important difference: “Tesla is not only a Robotics company, they are a Robotics company AT SCALE which is a whole different variable. They are building the machine that builds the thing, a whole separate thing” Something 1X / Figure etc have just scratched the surface on.

That this ever was and remains a question continues to boggle my mind

Sensory and Motor Homunculus Men They represent what a person would look like if each body part grew in proportion to the area of the brain’s cortex that controls it. The hands are the largest because they require the most brain resources for movement and sensation.