this is one of those videos that is really cool on the surface, but if you squint: - you don't need legs - you don't need this many degrees of freedom - you don't need a VLA it's fun because it's biomimetic, but perhaps excessively so
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Replying to @chris_j_paxton it's a bit trickier than just "oh, the lidar is $250". the really cheap Chinese lidars are either (1) narrow fov (2) low resolution (3) short range, or all of the above for their intended use case of indoor robots that's fine but it becomes messy for self driving plus, roads
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would you rather plow a field with 1000 chickens or two oxen? the answer is the chickens, but the winner is the guy who figured out how to make the rope to tie the chickens together
++++++1 for this. the secretive megastartups are really bad for the long-term health of the industry.
Ben is largely right in his analysis here. I'll add that in China, the toy version of the robots have real commercial value - there are entire businesses devoted to renting out Unitrees for promos and advertising, and there the simplified controls make sense. Also, the G1's
heh, this is nothing new. we had a "blind Cheetah" article come out back at MIT that drummed up a bit of controversy ("this blind robot will come hunt down your kids and eat them!")
maybe robotics can help what appears to be a mounting semiconductor fab crisis in the US. I've spent enough time in a cleanroom to never want to spend time in a cleanroom again, but with teleop, we might not have to (and I think cost-and-scarcity-of-labor is a huge part of the
this is adorable it's like a scale model of a real robot, and the configuration is very nice
couldn't agree more, data - not compute, not capital - is power in genAI
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