Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL
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#2Hell no! I seen this movie and I don't want any face-hugger sitting on my desk.
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#3I seem to remember that the SpiRobs paper behind the (extremely neat) tentacle mechanism indicated that they were going for a patent.
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#4This is so sick. I agree that it’s a little lame that we have all these AI capabilities right now, robotics improving, and all we can think of making is humanoid robots. Like I want a spider/squid hybrid robot running around my house
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#5A Lovecraft reference, nice. I'm wondering whether a smaller model would suffice as well.
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#6A Lovecraft reference, nice. I'm wondering whether a smaller model would suffice as well.
Yeah I came here to say the same thing. It seems like it would simplify things. They do say:
"I initially considered training a single end-to-end VLA model. [...] A cable-driven soft robot is different: the same tip position can correspond to many cable length combinations. This unpredictability makes demonstration-based approaches difficult to scale.[...] Instead, I went with a cascaded design: specialized vision feeding lightweight controllers, leaving room to expand into more advanced learned behaviors later."
I still think circling back to smaller models would be awesome. With some upgrades you might get a locally hosted model on there, but I'd be sure to keep that inside a pentagram so it doesn't summon a Great One.
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#7I seem to remember that the SpiRobs paper behind the (extremely neat) tentacle mechanism indicated that they were going for a patent.
If it's described in a paper doesn't that make it prior art though?
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#8I seem to remember that the SpiRobs paper behind the (extremely neat) tentacle mechanism indicated that they were going for a patent.
If it's described in a paper doesn't that make it prior art though?
Not if it is the authors of the paper filing for the patent. Otherwise people would never publish papers.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's described in a paper doesn't that make it prior art though?
Not if it is the authors of the paper filing for the patent. Otherwise people would never publish papers.
This always grinds my gears. For some people "discoveries" are so obvious, they don't bother writing a paper let alone patenting it. Then someone goes and patents it...
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#10A Lovecraft reference, nice. I'm wondering whether a smaller model would suffice as well.