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Robotics & AI

“Exploring the World of Robotics: A Conversation with UC Berkeley Professor Ken Goldberg”

Techcrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2018 Day 3

For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. Large language models like ChatGPT can allow robots and humans to communicate in natural language. Robot “singularities” are a fundamental problem for all robot arms; they are very different from Kurzweil’s hypothetical point in time when AI surpasses humans. Robot singularities are points in space where a robot stops unexpectedly and must be manually reset by a human operator. For repetitive robot motions, singularities can be avoided by tedious manual fine-tuning of repetitive robot motions to adjust them such that they never encounter singularities.

Max Chen
December 16, 2023

Robotics & AI

“An Insightful Conversation: Exploring Robotics with Nvidia’s Deepu Talla”

We’re wrapping up our end-of-year robotics Q&A series with this entry from Deepu Talla. Over the past several years, NVIDIA has established itself a major platform for robotics simulation, prototyping and deployment. Previous Q&As:What role(s) will generative AI play in the future of robotics? Simulation: Models will be able to accelerate simulation development, bridging the gaps between 3D technical artists and developers, by building scenes, constructing environments and generating assets. These GenAI assets will see increased use for synthetic data generation, robot skills training and software testing.