Xpeng looks to be following in Tesla’s footsteps for its upcoming vehicle release.
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Get Ready for Optimus 2.0! Tesla’s Humanoid Robot is Leveling Up
Elon Musk teased the next iteration of Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus 2.0 on X recently.
“The new Optimus design, which will be complete later this year, is something special,” Musk replied to an X post.
In June, Tesla shared a few updates about Optimus and the milestones the humanoid robot has reached over the past year. According to Tesla, Optimus has already undergone three major design revisions. The humanoid robot’s hand were revised four times in the last two years.
A New Large-Scale Simulation Platform to Train Robots on Everyday Tasks
The performance of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including large computational models for natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision algorithms, has been rapidly improving over the past decades. One reason for this is that datasets to train these algorithms have exponentially grown, collecting hundreds of thousands of images and texts often collected from the internet.
Training data for robot control and planning algorithms, on the other hand, remains far less abundant, in part because acquiring it is not as straightforward. Some computer scientists have thus been trying to create larger datasets and platforms that could be used to train computational models for a wide range of robotics applications.
In a recent paper, pre-published on the server arXiv and set to be presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems 2024 conference, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and NVIDIA Research introduced one of these platforms, called RoboCasa.
One-third of U.S. military could be robotic, Milley predicts
Militaries have for years tinkered with armed drones, robo-dogs, mechanical mules and more.
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Robot-packed meals are coming to the frozen-food aisle
Advances in artificial intelligence are coming to your freezer, in the form of robot-assembled prepared meals.
Chef Robotics, a San Francisco–based startup, has launched a system of AI-powered robotic arms that can be quickly programmed with a recipe to dole out accurate portions of everything from tikka masala to pesto tortellini. After experiments with leading brands, including Amy’s Kitchen, the company says its robots have proved their worth and are being rolled out at scale to more production facilities. They are also being offered to new customers in the US and Canada.
Tesla Robotaxi unveiling event pushed back from August: report
CEO Elon Musk teased it in April for the first time, and it was set to bring unprecedented momentum to the company’s years of development of Full Self-Driving and fully autonomous driving technologies.
However, Tesla is not quite ready to roll out the Robotaxi prototypes.
First reported by Bloomberg, Tesla is said to need more time to build the first units of the Robotaxi. Because it is built upon the automaker’s next-generation platform, which is to blame for the company’s lack of growth in 2024, more development is needed.
China to ramp up brain chip program after teaching monkey to control robot
The country’s current progress appears to be on par with Elon Musk’s Neuralink.
China has created a committee to steer the nation’s development of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), with the hope of becoming the global leader in brain chip technology.
The committee will reportedly develop nationwide standards for development to compete with Western technology outfits, such as Elon Musk’s Neuralink.
Brain-computer interfaces
The term “brain-computer interface” was coined in the early 1970s. A BCI refers to any device that translates the brain’s signals into language that can be interpreted by a computer.