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How Agility Robotics crosses the Sim2Real gap with NVIDIA Isaac Lab

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At Agility Robotics, we are working with our humanoid robot Digit, which balances actively at all times, can recover from unexpected bumps, and can lift and move heavy things. Training Digit in simulation through NVIDIA’s tools designed for robotics. There are 28 degrees of freedom and quite a few sensors.

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Chef Robotics brings in $43M to deploy more food assembly robots

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Chef Robotics targets high-volume, high-mix food assembly applications, one of the hardest problems to train AI for. Source: Chef Robotics Chef Robotics Inc., which has developed robotic systems for meal assembly, today announced that it has raised $43.1 Robotics is really having a moment right now.

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2024: The year humanoids woke up

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Source: Citi GPS Eight years ago, not even $1 million went into startups focused exclusively on humanoids. Just this month, Citis leading investment analysts published The Rise of AI Robots: Physical AI is Coming for You. Robots are hardly new, but theres a number of new developments that are happening,” he stated.

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ReMEmbR shows how generative AI can help robots reason and act, says NVIDIA

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ReMEmbR combines LLMs, VLMs, and retrieval-augmented generation to enable robots to reason and take action. They can also be integrated with live data sources and tools, to request more information if they don’t know the answer or take action when they do. But how can you apply these advances to perception and autonomy in robotics?

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NVIDIA, ORBIT-Surgical teach surgical robots key skills in simulation

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[link] A collaboration between NVIDIA and academic researchers is prepping robots for surgery. It is a simulation framework to train robots that could augment the skills of surgical teams while reducing surgeons’ cognitive load. The open-source code package is now available on GitHub. minimally invasive surgery.

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Adaptability is key for robotic arms, FAULHABER says

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The range of manipulation tasks that robots can carry out is growing, according to FAULHABER. When it comes to standardized mass production, specialized robots can perform the same tasks day and night. The greater the range of tasks that a robot can carry out, the better, FAULHABER said in a blog post.

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Boston Dynamics debuts electric version of Atlas humanoid robot

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which yesterday retired the older version of its humanoid robot after 15 years of development and today showed a preview of its successor. based company showed that its robot could walk, open a door, and maintain its balance while being shoved by a person holding a hockey stick, all without a tether. By 2016, the Waltham, Mass.-based

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