Robotics.. After machine learning and crypto era, we've come to robotics era.. Soon, terminator baby
Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
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Re: Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
#242Nice. Here's much the same job, being done almost 50 years ago, by a robot at the Stanford AI lab.[1] This robot has both vision and force feedback, and uses them to assemble an automotive water pump. It does the coarse alignment visually, and the fine alignment by feel. [1] https://archive.org/details/sailfilm_pump
I'm still waiting for a robot that can assemble a LEGO model from a pile of Legos.
Re: Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
#243I really dislike this writing structure of "before I get to the point, let me tell you a story about my life" Edit: I'm not alone, https://style.mla.org/dont-bury-the-lede/
Off-Topic: I would recommend aspiring writers to read, or better still, write, academic papers. Once you get the hang of what makes a good paper, it helps with all forms of non-fiction writing.
Re: Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
#244I really dislike this writing structure of "before I get to the point, let me tell you a story about my life" Edit: I'm not alone, https://style.mla.org/dont-bury-the-lede/
I hat this too. Especially for newsletters. They tease you with an interesting headline and then let you scan the entire thing to find maybe just a link to the topic teased.
Re: Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
#245Over the last few years, our team has been exploring how to give industrial robots the ability to sense, learn, and automatically make adjustments as they’re completing tasks, so they work in a wider range of settings and applications. Working in collaboration with teams across Alphabet, and with our partners in real-world manufacturing settings, we’ve been testing software that uses techniques like automated perception, deep learning, reinforcement learning, motion planning, simulation, and force control.
Re: Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is literally just one short paragraph of personal intro by the CEO, before getting the “plot”.
I'm not trying to be disagreeable, but... > Intrinsic is working to unlock the creative and economic potential of industrial robotics ...is under the fold, under two paragraphs and an image
The “second” paragraph is one sentence, and announces Instrinsic. Having an image is not something I would consider wrong either.
Re: Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
#247I’m “unlocking” that this will be dead within 18 months. It will get too hard and bored engineers will head back to Google Corp where the promotion game is better. I’m in manufacturing. Machinery is highly specialised. Making a generic robot without taking up huge amount of floor space and/or huge leaps in programming is like… Kubernetes being good for hosting your moms book club blog.
I worked at Google X for two years on a different robotics effort.
In general you’re not wrong. It’s also an easy prediction to make because almost all new robotics efforts fail.
I’ll just say that they’ve been working with manufacturers for years on test projects. So this isn’t really a new thing so much as a formalization of whatever they came up with.
I’m still not sure how this stuff will go (X is of course for experimental stuff) but if the project has “graduated” to a company than I’d presume they have some revenue plan and potential customers. I could imagine that at least one of their trial projects with a manufacturer has worked out, and they think they can find more partners for this work. (I only scanned the beginning of the article)
They have been experimenting and developing a LOT of stuff since 2013 and plenty of it sadly does just get completely sacked and mothballed (and I have my personal gripes with the great projects they could have open sourced but instead they just let the bits rot). That said I think with how much I saw them working on they probably could find applications where profit is a real possibility.
Re: Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
#248Intrinsic reminds me of Hooli,xyz
Re: Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
#249I really dislike this writing structure of "before I get to the point, let me tell you a story about my life" Edit: I'm not alone, https://style.mla.org/dont-bury-the-lede/
You will not be a fan of recipe blogs anywhere on the internet.
SeriousEats. It’s truly amazing. Most of their recipes are split into two pages, one is just ingredients+steps, and the other is a “story” - but not an irrelevant story of a person, dish, or how it tastes on a warm summer day, but instead it lists different experiments the author tested, results, dispels common myths, …
Re: Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
#250Nice. Here's much the same job, being done almost 50 years ago, by a robot at the Stanford AI lab.[1] This robot has both vision and force feedback, and uses them to assemble an automotive water pump. It does the coarse alignment visually, and the fine alignment by feel. [1] https://archive.org/details/sailfilm_pump
https://youtu.be/cNxadbrN_aI here are neural networks in the 50s. Something having been tried before doesn't mean it isn't worth ever trying again in a context of much improved technology.