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This is perhaps one of the biggest efforts by Beijing to turn a fantastic vision of the future into reality, almost by force of will. They know the technology is not ready, but they think if they can turn it into this big spectacle that will crowd in investment and trigger this boom.

Kyle Chan
2w ago

Its bet is that studying how humans engage with robots produces both better interfaces and possibly a different kind of robotic brain. The public robots.online experiment lets users try text, audio, demonstrations, and other interaction patterns while the company observes how people naturally attempt to get machines to do things.

1mo ago

Within skilled assembly, wire harnesses are perhaps the trickiest to get right, or at least the trickiest that we need a lot of, the trickiest without which nothing else turns on. So if you've been trained to heatseek bottlenecks at the system level and throw everything you've got at them until they're knocked out and you can move on to the next one, then wire harnessing is the logical place to start. And it turns out you can't automate it, yet.

2mo ago

Clippord has no maps or specific data on the office layout as a reference; it's approximating its own size, and how to handle obstacles, entirely from a corpus of video game usage data, topped off with 8 minutes of real-world data collected on the sidewalk below.

2mo ago

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