Automate

How Generalist Revolutionizes Robot Learning with Human Data

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Summer is about creating memories. And for robots, that translates into generating lots of data. It’s also a time to catch up on reading. My beach material last June was the research paper on Universal Manipulation Interface: In-The-Wild Robot Teaching Without In-The-Wild Robots (aka UMI). Generalist, now a $2 billion unicorn robotics startup, was inspired … Read more

Trade Show Season – Robo Style 🇺🇸

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May was a big month for robotics in the United States, as flowers bloomed outside, actuators rose in the convention halls of Boston, Detroit, Houston, and Atlanta. While there have been many good articles on each of these events, with numerous postings of new humanoids and co-bots in action. I would like to share some observations as an insider with nearly a decade of attendance at two very different shows: Automate and Xponential.