Your awesome selection of videos this week shows robots that drum, weld, farm, play soccer, help at home, operate heavy equipment, and more
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This is very, very cool. But I’m trying to think of what the commercial use case will be, you know? I guess, high speed, incredibly dangerous package delivery to second-floor windows or something…?
I will make the cautionary point that for many of these “the model figured it out” tasks, the blog post can only say that there was no relevant pretraining data “to the best of our knowledge.”
As a professional bagpiper who definitely pays very close attention to whatever that annoying tapping noise is coming from the back of the band, I can attest to this group ofrobot drummersbeing absolutely top-notch.
This is a nifty idea that adapts a kind of interface frequently used for robot training and uses it for human training instead.
I got stuck after the first 15 seconds of this video trying to imagine what any of these home humanoids would usefully do if they dropped a glass.
Evan Ackermanis a senior editor atIEEE Spectrum. Since 2007, he has written over 6,000 articles on robotics and technology. He has a degree in Martian geology and is excellent at playing bagpipes.