Meet Project GR00T: NVIDIA's Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots
Project GR00T, a general-purpose multimodal foundation model for humanoids, acts as the mind of robots, making them capable of learning skills to solve a variety of tasks.
Robotics
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Mercedes-Benz Pilots Apptronik's Apollo Humanoid Robot in Manufacturing Facilities
Mercedes-Benz will collaborate with Apptronik to identify applications for Apollo in their manufacturing processes, such as delivering parts to the production line for human workers to assemble and inspecting components.
Physical Intelligence Raises $70M to Build AI-Powered Robots for Any Application
Pi differentiates itself by aiming to create software that can be applied across a wide range of robotics hardware.
Humanoid Robot Startup, Figure, Raises $675M from OpenAI, Bezos, NVIDIA, Microsoft and Others
Their lifelike Figure 01 can walk on two legs, utilize its five-fingered hands to grasp objects and place them elsewhere, already demonstrating 16.7% the speed of a human performing the same warehouse task.
1X Robotics Shares Impressive Demo of Fully Autonomous Robot
Remarkably, the demo contains no teleoperation, scripts, edits, or speed alterations.
Figure to Deploy AI-Powered Humanoid Robots in BMW Factories
The goal is to have the robots take over certain repetitive or dangerous jobs to improve productivity and safety on the factory floor.
Android Maker 1X Raises $100M Series B to Bring Humanoid Robot NEO to Market
The Norway-based startup, which is backed by OpenAI's startup fund, intends to use the capital injection to increase its production volume from dozens to hundreds of units per month.
Google DeepMind Unveils Latest Research in Advanced Robotics with AutoRT, SARA-RT, and RT-Trajectory
These advancements build on the foundational Robotics Transformers work, aiming to streamline decision-making processes, enhance environmental understanding, and improve navigational capabilities of robots.
Stanford Unveils a New Low-Cost Mobile Robotics Training System
Mobile ALOHA can autonomously complete complex mobile manipulation tasks such as sauteing and serving a piece of shrimp, opening a two-door wall cabinet to store heavy cooking pots, and lightly rinsing a used pan using a kitchen faucet.
NVIDIA's Eureka Uses GPT-4 to Teach Robots New Skills
Crucially, Eureka does this without any human prompting or pre-defined templates. The AI agent is fully autonomous in formulating reward algorithms tailored to the task and robot morphology.
Meta Advances Socially Intelligent Robots with Habitat 3.0, HSSD-200, and HomeRobot
The breakthroughs aim to enable real-world collaborative robots and augmented reality assistants.
NVIDIA Bets on Generative AI to Accelerate Robotics and Industrial AI
This marks NVIDIA's largest-ever software expansion of their Isaac and Metropolis frameworks on the Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics.
Mujin Raises $85M Series C to Enhance Intelligent Robotic Automation Capabilities
The company intends to drive efficiency and productivity gains through intelligent robotics automation.
Taiwanese AI Robotics Startup Nuwa Secures $6 Million in Series B Funding
This new funding round will drive expansion into various service sectors and global markets, as the company seeks to capitalize on a rapidly growing demand for robot-as-a-service solutions.
Google Researchers Teach Robots New Skills With Just Natural Language
This study could herald a new era in robotics, enabling anyone to easily teach robots an array of new skills simply by explaining it to them.
Google DeepMind Unveils RT-2, Bringing Robots Closer to General Intelligence
Essentially, the model can comprehend and 'speak robot', translating abstract concepts learned from vast web data into actionable knowledge that informs robot behavior.