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A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Peter Stone
This researcher explores artificial intelligence through robot soccer, service robots, and table tennis
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@getundaunted now runs 100+ security robots.
All patrol metro Atlanta apartments, a human behind each screen. At one site, burglaries hit zero, car theft down 84%.
Next stop: Houston and Dallas.
Source: PR Newswire
Video: @getundaunted#Robotics#PhysicalAI#SecurityTech
ZAP Surgical just secured $36M to scale robotic brain surgery.
Its ZAP-X treats tumors without an incision or a radiation vault. 50th system shipped, nearly 10,000 patients treated.
Source: Business Wire
Image: ZAP Surgical
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@nvidia just open-sourced Flora, its GEAR lab model suite that turns raw video into robot training data
It labels 200K hours of footage a day in house at a claimed 125x lower cost. The weights are now public.
Source: @DrJimFan#Robotics#RobotLearning#EmbodiedAI
@DrJimFan The bottleneck in robot learning was never the model architecture, it is labeled hours. A data engine doing 200K hours a day at 125x lower cost, with the weights open, changes who gets to compete. Labs without a hyperscaler budget just got a data team.
@asimovinc Owning the stack is the whole argument. A closed humanoid gives you an API and a ceiling. An open one gives you a platform other people can build companies on. Curious what the bill of materials lands at once builders start reproducing it.
@LeRobotHF@NVIDIAGTC A room full of people training real arms on open source hardware is how an ecosystem actually forms. The SO-ARM becoming the default teaching robot matters more than another leaderboard. Low cost, shared code, real hands on real hardware.
@adcock_brett Nine days straight is a different kind of demo. Most humanoid videos prove a robot can do a thing once. This is about whether the joints, motors, and feet survive doing it a million times, which is the question every buyer actually asks.
@geckorobotics just quadrupled its Navy deal.
Ceiling up from $71M to $300M in six months. Its crawlers find ship damage 50x faster, saving up to $8M per ship.
Months of inspections now take days.
Source: GlobeNewswire
Image: @geckorobotics#Robotics#DefenseTech#PhysicalAI
@FANUCAmerica opened the largest US automation training center.
The $18M Auburn Hills academy spans 132,000 sq ft and can train 17,500 people a year.
Robots are scaling. People must scale with them.
Source: FANUC America
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