Major innovations like electricity and the automobile show how society adapts to disruptive technology over time.
Artificial intelligence is evolving from pure software into embodied systems, building on a long history of robotics from early concepts to modern industrial automation.
An overview of current advanced robots like Figure, Tesla's Optimus, and Boston Dynamics highlights their impressive interaction and mobility capabilities.
The convergence of exponential AI growth, accelerated hardware, and vast data collection is creating a perfect storm for innovation in intelligent robotics.
Robots are already being used in manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare, but developers face significant challenges with power efficiency and operational safety.
Developers can leverage open-source frameworks like ROS 2, downloadable small language models, and near real-time simulations to build and test robots efficiently.
A walkthrough of building a custom robot reveals key challenges in motor control abstraction, sensor fusion with lidar and cameras, and integrating AI for object detection.
A demonstration shows how a custom robot uses its camera, lidar, and object detection to perceive its environment, followed by an attempt to use a VLM for interaction.
The project highlights the complexity of modern robotics and serves as an open invitation for developers to contribute to its ongoing development.
24:48Alexander Schwarz
39:11Thomas Dohmke
29:34Falk-Moritz Schaefer
30:57Teresa Conceicao
30:58Daniel Brintzinger
35:16Ankit Patel
28:09Jan Oberhauser, Mirko Novakovic, Alex Laubscher & Keno Dreßel
25:14Jonas Andrulis
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
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Neura Robotics GmbH
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