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When you’re training a robot via reinforcement learning, a handcrafted reward function is labor-intensive to build but often dispenses rewards more effectively than a general-purpose reward model based on a vision-language model. Researchers built reward models that narrowed the gap.
Neural networks can forget how to perform earlier tasks as they learn new ones.
A small number of humanoid robots have made their way into industrial settings, where they’re roughly matching the cost of human labor and propelling some workers into higher-level roles.
OpenAI plans to shut down its video generator Sora in a sudden retreat from the video market.
Runway’s GWM-1 family of video-generation models respond to user input in real time while producing scenes that remain consistent regardless of the camera’s position.
In factories, where teams of robotic arms work in tight spaces, their motions are programmed by hand to keep them from interfering with one another. Researchers automated this programming using graph neural networks trained via reinforcement learning.
Robot control systems that accept only text input struggle to translate words into motions in space. Researchers developed a system that enables robots to plan spatial paths before they execute text instructions.
Hangzhou, a longtime manufacturing hub in eastern China, is blossoming into a center of AI innovation.
Researchers in China disguised a quadruped robot as a Tibetan antelope to help study the animals close-up.
An autonomous robot performed intricate surgical operations without human intervention.
An automated beehive uses computer vision and robotics to help keep bees healthy and crops pollinated.
Meta revealed new details about its latest Aria eyeglasses, which aim to give AI models a streaming, multisensory, human perspective.
Hugging Face has made a name by providing open AI models. Now it’s providing an open robot.
Chinese robot makers Unitree and EngineAI showed off relatively low-priced humanoid robots that could bring advanced robotics closer to everyday applications.
Chinese robot makers Unitree and EngineAI showed off relatively low-priced humanoid robots that could bring advanced robotics closer to everyday applications.
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