I am so excited about this finding from @pengrui_han and @devarda_a, also with @jacobandreas! Perhaps modularity is inevitable in intelligent systems, biological or in silico. :)
Hardware is the bridge between AI and the physical world
Atoms and bits must work together to create future systems embedded with physical intelligence
We wrote a guide for those curious about the atoms.
A few years ago, learning robot learning meant stitching together dozens of papers and courses â with no clear path from the basics to what state-of-the-art systems actually do.
This was one of the motivations behind creating @ETH's course "Robot Learning: From Fundamentals to Foundation Models", to provide a structured path from first principles all the way to modern foundation models for robotics.
I strongly believe that education should be accessible to everyone, so I have made all lecture recordings publicly available on YouTube.
Creating this course was one of the most challenging projects I have taken on. It was my first time designing and teaching an entire curriculum from scratch, while simultaneously working full-time in industry. On top of that, the course proved to be more popular than expected and we had to scale it to almost 300 students, which was only possible thanks to an amazing team of TAs. Looking back, it was an absolute privilege to teach this class and an incredibly rewarding experience.
If you are getting into robot learning, this is the starting point I wish I had.
ð Main lectures:
https://t.co/r1PpQASaJg
ð€ Guest lectures:
https://t.co/nh5Rm2P2Lz
ð Course website: https://t.co/DoQUYy3MjB
Biological neuron compared to the artificial neuron used in neural networks.
- The top shows a biologic neuron: dendrites receive signals, the cell body processes them, the axon transmits the signal, and terminals pass it onward.
- The bottom shows an artificial neuron: inputs xâ to xâ are weighted by wâ to wâ, summed with bias B, then passed through activation function f to produce output. This model is the basis for artificial neural networks.
It drives applications such as image classification in social media and voice recognition in virtual assistants.
ROBOTIS DYNAMIXEL-Q is designed to support the next generation of humanoid robotics development in conjunction with next level tools like NVIDIA Isaac Simâ¢.
Watch how simulation-driven workflows and high-performance actuation merge to develop a humanoid robot capable of walking in just 7 days.
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