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Sonic The Hedgehog robot! A solution to the classic “legs vs wheels” debate? Six legs *and* a single omnidirectional wheel. Also a different take on legs+wheels than “wheels at the bottom of legs”, for example Boston Dynamics’ ~2017 Handle bot, Ascento , etc. Also relevant

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Recent talk at MIT by Toyota Research Institute on their work scaling diffusion models and dexterous data collection youtube.com/live/fwBbj6UmK… Ben Burchfiel, Siyuan, Eric Cousineau, Naveen Kuppuswamy, Russ, and co.

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Introduction by way of a massively oversimplified Haiku -- VLM problem: Suck at 3D reasoning Generate data :) Actually getting this done, at scale, comes with a very creative pipeline, and lots of analysis. Awesome work lead by Boyuan Chen and amazing hosting by Fei Xia !

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In your head, when you *plan* into the future - how much planning do you do in "language" in your head? - if not using language, do you visualize? If you visualize, is it photoreal from an ego view, or something else? - is there a 3rd, not language or visualizing, way you plan?

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Always such a joy seeing new Atlas videos :) Looks like a hard task, especially with the contact mode switching into/from sliding, and the constraints involved, on both grabbing and stowing. Also looks like a heavy widget. Interesting new fingers too!

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🤙 Hardware improvements make life much better in unexpected ways. Example: I used to think there was a software bug causing gripper latency… nope, just static friction in the original grippers!! + new sim 💯 👏 team for Tony Z. Zhao’s Google DeepMind internship!

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We've been working on ALOHA 2 for several months to scale up the ALOHA platform and create a robot fleet to collect dexterous manipulation data. The new hardware is more robust, user-friendly, and enables a much wider range of tasks. Check out Tony's thread for details!

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I'll be at ICLR 2025 next week! Happy to chat about generative models, compositional models, robot learning and embodied agents. I'll be presenting VLP (video-language-planning.github.io) showing how we can generate long-horizon video plans by combining VLMs + videos + search.

I'll be at <a href="/iclr_conf/">ICLR 2025</a> next week!  

Happy to chat about generative models,  compositional models, robot learning and embodied agents.

 I'll be presenting VLP (video-language-planning.github.io) showing how we can generate long-horizon video plans by combining VLMs + videos + search.
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I'm leaving OpenAI after 3½ yrs. I'll be joining my good friend Andy Barry (Boston Dynamics) + Pete Florence & Andy Zeng (DeepMind 🤖) on a brand new initiative! I think this will be necessary to fully realize AGI in the world and am excited to share more about it soon