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Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

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Re: Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

#31

I'm ready for my home helper robot that makes dinner and does the dishes and takes out the trash. But I'm scared for when those home helpers get drafted to fight in wars, either for or against me...

One intelligent humanoid robot per house. What could go wrong really. Possibly the worst idea.

Re: Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

#32

I'm ready for my home helper robot that makes dinner and does the dishes and takes out the trash. But I'm scared for when those home helpers get drafted to fight in wars, either for or against me...

You should be relieved that they're sending robots instead of you to get blown up by a drone.

Re: Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

#34

Frontier labs are realizing that software/models themselves don’t have real moats and move to embodied ai. SOTA 80% means a practically useless robot. What are they really imagining their ICP to be here?

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It’s unclear to me what their desired outcome for a blog post like this. If you’ve ever worked in a robotics setting, 80% implies that 20% of your autonomous actions are incorrect. Imagine if this were the case for autonomous driving where your car misbehaves 1 in every 5 actions it takes.

Posts like this just reminds me of the end to end demos AV companies built in the early days using a single camera - only to realize that it’s harder than it looks years later into development.

Re: Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

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I'm ready for my home helper robot that makes dinner and does the dishes and takes out the trash. But I'm scared for when those home helpers get drafted to fight in wars, either for or against me...

I suspect the latter will come way before the former...

It is already here. Not humanoid (yet, but it's in the works) but tracked robots with bolted on machine guns have both held and captured positions in UA.

Re: Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

#36

It's implied, and I'm hoping it's true, that this is a map-less navigation. Which is impressive. This kind of task is much easier if you have a pre-captured map of the environment, but if they are doing this without a map it's great. Historically you were always faced with "The Kidnapped Robot" problem where robots that didn't know where they were couldn't navigate even a little bit. Here the robot appears to be able…

Wouldn't modern SLAM or VSLAM address that problem?

Re: Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

#37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does this comment mean?

It’s unclear to me what their desired outcome for a blog post like this. If you’ve ever worked in a robotics setting, 80% implies that 20% of your autonomous actions are incorrect. Imagine if this were the case for autonomous driving where your car misbehaves 1 in every 5 actions it takes. Posts like this just reminds me of the end to end demos AV companies built in the early days using a single camera - only to real…

The ICP question was more around the model itself. Are they looking to license it to robotics companies? Do they imagine that devs at robotics companies would be willing to deploy these models as a black box?

Re: Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

#38

I'm ready for my home helper robot that makes dinner and does the dishes and takes out the trash. But I'm scared for when those home helpers get drafted to fight in wars, either for or against me...

I think you'll be waiting a while for the former, unless you're ok with strangers teleoperating a robot around your house whenever it gets confused.

Re: Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

#39

It's implied, and I'm hoping it's true, that this is a map-less navigation. Which is impressive. This kind of task is much easier if you have a pre-captured map of the environment, but if they are doing this without a map it's great. Historically you were always faced with "The Kidnapped Robot" problem where robots that didn't know where they were couldn't navigate even a little bit. Here the robot appears to be able…

I am working in Mistral robotics team. I confirm this is map-less. The only inputs are the text prompt and the front camera rgb image.
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