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RoboCat – A Self-Improving Robotic Agent

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Re: RoboCat – A Self-Improving Robotic Agent

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Post by imachine1980_ »

itissid wrote: post #13
itissid wrote: post #12

I had a more general noobish version of it in my head how all this plays out. Now that AI based task planning can learn from so few examples and can do extremely general tasks like say the instruction: "Summarize my gmail twice a day at 7:00 AM and 5:00 PM filtering spam and stuff I don't read" would spawn an agent with a plan to do exactly what you want. And if it could not you could show it once like "recording" a…

I mean I am not blind, there are plenty of no code platforms that work on B2B space. But nothing in the B2C for general purpose domain that do this in a privacy safe manner, at least not one that will shake up the tech companies.

this will probably be b2b where you are the product, like social media

Re: RoboCat – A Self-Improving Robotic Agent

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Post by jjk166 »

aliljet wrote: post #7

I really really really want to play with robotics at home, but I've discovered it's super expensive to get things like robotic arms at home. Are there robotics platforms that are DIY ready? I really just want to teach a robotic arm to make my coffee in the morning. And I'll apply my life's effort to achieving this only if the cost of the robotics platform is stupid low. Yes. I know that's absurd. :)

Elephant robotics has arms starting around ~$500. I've had good success with their myCobot280-pi. The reach and payload are a bit limited but it's fine for playing around.

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Post by nomel »

digdugdirk wrote: post #24
nomel wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have any obvious examples in mind?

Plenty of manufacturing environments that involve heavy items. Even with a lift assist, they'll still need 2-3 people to help lift or guide something to the next cell or next place in the line. Lift assists are still expensive, and if that could be replaced with a robotic arm and cut out 2-3 employees at the same time? There's going to be a big market for this. Certainly big enough to keep a company afloat while they…

I would assume bridge cranes handles the majority of the cases to replace human effort. It seems that "successfully 86% of the time" and "heavy items" usually means "destruction". Some secondary system to verify grip would be required.

Re: RoboCat – A Self-Improving Robotic Agent

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Post by smoll »

When the operator was demonstrating "perturbations", they were reaching into the scene while the robot was very close to grabbing objects they had their fingers near - isn't this dangerous? What if the robot clamped down on their fingers?

Re: RoboCat – A Self-Improving Robotic Agent

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Post by thelastparadise »

smoll wrote: post #35

When the operator was demonstrating "perturbations", they were reaching into the scene while the robot was very close to grabbing objects they had their fingers near - isn't this dangerous? What if the robot clamped down on their fingers?

> What if the robot clamped down on their fingers?

Sometimes risk needs to be taken.

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Post by rajansaini »

itissid wrote: post #13
itissid wrote: post #12

I had a more general noobish version of it in my head how all this plays out. Now that AI based task planning can learn from so few examples and can do extremely general tasks like say the instruction: "Summarize my gmail twice a day at 7:00 AM and 5:00 PM filtering spam and stuff I don't read" would spawn an agent with a plan to do exactly what you want. And if it could not you could show it once like "recording" a…

I mean I am not blind, there are plenty of no code platforms that work on B2B space. But nothing in the B2C for general purpose domain that do this in a privacy safe manner, at least not one that will shake up the tech companies.

A successor to OpenLLaMA could make this possible. Imagine being able to deploy your own LLM.

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Post by eep_social »

aliljet wrote: post #7

I really really really want to play with robotics at home, but I've discovered it's super expensive to get things like robotic arms at home. Are there robotics platforms that are DIY ready? I really just want to teach a robotic arm to make my coffee in the morning. And I'll apply my life's effort to achieving this only if the cost of the robotics platform is stupid low. Yes. I know that's absurd. :)

If you’re serious, this youtuber built a robotic arm himself: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4njCTv7IRbyf3XfhUcp_jnkR...

Don’t think it’s cheap nor a “platform” but maybe it’s enough to get you started ;)

He just recently put out a video on making a carbon fiber arm piece for it.

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