Rafa Felix

Research Scientist @ Sabbatical | Leading R2B Safety Lab | Building Open-Access Safe Robotics | ex-TikTok

[Rafa Felix @rafafelixphd]

The Robot Nobody Wanted to Need!

Cool? Yes. But that's not the point. When was the last time someone told you their dream was to work in a factory? #BostonDynamicsAtlas #AtlasRobot #HumanoidRobotics #FactoryAutomation #FutureOfWork #AI

[Rafa Felix @rafafelixphd]

Can the new Gemini model operate a robot? I plugged Gemini ER 1.6 into a simulation to see if it could navigate with ZERO prior training.

10 moves. One goal: find the sink.

#Gemini #EmbodiedAI #Robotics #Simulation #AI2THOR #AI

[Asimov @asimovinc]

This is Asimov v1.

We're planning to open-source the complete body design, simulation files, and a full list of actuators.

Asimov v1 includes everything you need to build, modify, and train your own humanoid.

[Rafa Felix @rafafelixphd]

@asimovinc yes pls

[Dave Sousa @dave_sousa]

YouTube, you good bro? Sounds like a global outage right now.

[Rafa Felix @rafafelixphd]

it’s been a couple of hours since I successfully set up my cloud environment. With 15,000 steps that’s what the robots doing. It will need a lot more training.

#robot #soarm101 #huggingfaces

[Rafa Felix @rafafelixphd]

@batsuev_es @skalskip92 already printed yay!

[Rafa Felix @rafafelixphd]

it’s a new day
New printing

Froggy is still the same

[Rafa Felix @rafafelixphd]

@skalskip92 check the setup.

https://t.co/089mR5YE2H

[Rafa Felix @rafafelixphd]

V1 of the Robot Risk Bench setup. Let's first learn some basic dexterity tasks with VLAs to test our safety assumptions.

Teleop and Follower are positioned in the same direction to allow operator to see everything.

That's exciting. More videos to come.

[Rafa Felix @rafafelixphd]

Major update to the R2B Bench V1. I am describing how to use a PS4 camera for stereo vision. GIve it a look to the github for more details.

Contributions are also welcome.

https://t.co/089mR5YE2H

[Rafa Felix @rafafelixphd]

@skalskip92 I am noticing the same. As I try to play with the `plan, sort and put` today, it became super hard to teleoperate. Looking forward to see you playing with the cups. I will order on amazon later.

[Ismail @stsqit]

We’re hosting the largest Physical AI hackathon at Founders Inc 🤖
Jan 31 – Feb 1

• I’m bringing hours of imitation learning data for VLA/VLM (video, tactile, depth, audio)
• Our partners are bringing egocentric models, fine-tuning pipelines, and real robots you can deploy on

No sims. No slides.
You’ll watch robots actually get better.

More info 👉 https://t.co/37za7Qv3K4
RSVP 👉 https://t.co/hg90ciQYRQ

[Rafa Felix @rafafelixphd]

@skalskip92 Yes, there is little research in VLA safety. I think SO-ARM101 it's a great first step to show safety applications at a low budget.

[Rafa Felix @rafafelixphd]

New setup view for recording teleoperation and functioning of the SO-ARM101. It is working like a charm, specially after I figure out how to fix a problem with my USB hub.

I am super excited to create some cool videos.

[Rafa Felix @rafafelixphd]

@skalskip92 @elias_ab_ can you try to add some brass inserts m3 there perhpas?

[Rafa Felix @rafafelixphd]

@skalskip92 yo @skalskip92 have you checked this cool mod on the gripper? Just finished printing, I will be assembling tomorrow. Really cool
https://t.co/aKa9QMQDjm