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Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control

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Re: Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control

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When doing robot control, how do you model in the control of the robot? Do you have tool_use / function calling at the top level model which then gets turned into motion control parameters via inverse kinematic controllers?

What is the interface from the top level to the motors?

I feel it can not just be a neural network all the way down, right?

Re: Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control

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There’s nothing I want more than a robot that does house chores. That’s the real 10x multiplier for humans to do what they do best.

Hopefully in the next decade we’ll get there.

Vision+language multimodal models seem to solve some of the hard problems.

Re: Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control

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When doing robot control, how do you model in the control of the robot? Do you have tool_use / function calling at the top level model which then gets turned into motion control parameters via inverse kinematic controllers? What is the interface from the top level to the motors? I feel it can not just be a neural network all the way down, right?

Have a look at the post - it explains how it works. There are two models: a 7-9Hz 7B vision-language model, and a 200Hz 80M visuomotor model. The former produces a latent vector, which is then interpreted by the latter to drive the motors.
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