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Hi all! Sharing our latest work on Robot Utility Models: open source robot models for some useful tasks like door or drawer opening at ~90% success rate that should just work out o…

Thank you!

User fishbotics already answers a lot of these questions downstream, but just confirming it here as an author of the project/paper: > - How does it know what objects are? Does it u…

A large motivation behind this line of home-robot work for me is thinking about the elderly, people with disabilities, or busy parents who simply don't have enough time to do it al…

In fact, Hello Robot already shared a teleoperated demo of folding shirts! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtG8nJ78x2M&t=180s But yes, a second arm is needed.

Thank you! A large motivation behind this line of home-robot work for me is thinking about the elderly, people with disabilities, or busy parents who simply don't have enough time …

It's always a trade-off! You could have more accurate sensors and motors that are more expensive, or you can have cheaper motors with no sensors and higher accumulated errors. Sinc…

The title has multiple meanings, some credits definitely should go to OK computer/radiohead, but also "OK Google" for controlling a home assistant, open-knowledge (OK) models, etc.…

No, although it has some of the same people on the team (aka I'm the first author there, and my advisor is advising both projects :) ) The primary difference is that this is zero-s…

The mapping process can be done with any RGB-D cameras, we use an iPhone pro but any apple devide with AR-Kit should work. Once we have a sequence of RGB-D images with associated c…

Here is the page for Hello Robots: https://hello-robot.com/

Thanks! We collect all the data and analyze it post-facto to see what may have caused the failure. For example, on the 5 trials you mentioned, the Realsense gave wrong depth on tra…

Hi all, excited to share our latest work, OK-Robot, which is an open and modular framework to perform navigation and manipulation with a robot assistant in practically any homes wi…

Second that. Something I put out recently had an (admittedly video heavy) webpage that had 1TB of traffic over the past month. Cloudflare handled it for free for me, but at ArXiv’s…

Dobb·E is free (and open source) now :)

I am glad you mentioned automobiles! They are among the most heavily engineered everyday product that we use every day, and this engineering and cost optimization has been going on…

I'm sorry, should have been clearer. The Spot robot with a manipulator arm (which has been used in some home projects before, see [0]) I believe totals up to about $200K. The base …

Smaller robots are unfortunately limited in how much force/torque they can apply and how high they can reach, two factors that we found can severely limit the applicability of a ho…

> For the iPhone with the depth sensor cinematic format from the standard camera app seem to contain depth/RGB/traj. Maybe a candidate format. Also it’s much easier to operate stan…

I am sorry, what problems are you facing? I tested it with Safari on both my phone and laptop just now and couldn't find an issue, so I would really appreciate it if you can reply …

Thank you Suren! It will get there when it gets there and so will I :) I do miss you folks, though.

I discuss this a little bit on another thread: ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38461559 ) But the tl;dr is that building prototypes is pricey, and the cost should definitely…

Tool usage is one of the next ideas we would like to explore; because, if you think about it, the reacher-grabber that is currently used as an end-effector is just another tool. If…

Great observation! Right now we rely on the out-of-the-box Hello Robots controller [0] implementing position control. Since our policy only predicts a single position into the futu…

OpenEXR looks very interesting! Especially if OpenEXR can compress depth data nearly as efficiently as we can compress image data by making everything a video, it would be a game c…