Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into roboticsGeneral Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six.
Noitom Robotics Releases HiPHI, One of the Largest High-Precision Human Motion Datasets Ever Made Public, at the World Robot ConferenceAvailable now on Hugging Face as the first public dataset of the company’s World Compiler approach From FrameNet to HiPHI data construction. Motion-relevant frames and lexical units define motion ...
Can a robotics startup survive by pivoting from hardware to data scraping?According to public posts from one of their engineers, they're now:· Scraping 1M+ hours of POV video from the internet · Burning significant GPU hours while models only work for basic tasks · Down to
Robotics development made dead simple (open source)Hey everyone,My team and I have been working hard on this project: https://peppy.botIt's a direct replacement for ROS 2. We already have the OpenArm robot (https://openarm.dev) working on the platform, both v1.0 and v2.0, plus Isaac Sim and MuJoCo integration.If you're in a hurry, head over to https://docs.peppy.bot/quickstart/ and get started in 5min.Our long term vision is to allow anyone (even non-devs) to go from a prompt to real humanoid robot actions, first in simulation, then on the physical robot.Happy to answer any question.
Ask HN: Anyone working on practical robotics (cobots) for the home?I'm specifically interested in people either building or buying 6 degrees of freedom robotic arms and rails and then integrating them with vision and sensors and tool changing.The deployment target is either a garage or a home "utility" room where the robot would be mounted to a table or ceiling mounted and intent might be sorting hardware, doing laundry or packing suitcases.The cobots I'm interested in are Universal Robots UR5, UR10 (you're gushing with cash to experiment) or down to AR4-class hardware, or SO-101 plus lerobot (you're doing a lot of making).
Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my deskQuick framing, since the post is long: I did robotic manipulation research at OpenAI from 2017–2020, and the tabletop setup back then cost roughly 10x this one and took a team to run. This project is me testing whether a single person can now do meaningful work on the same class of problems: starting with physical and software setup.A few decisions I'm least settled on, and would love some pushback/feedback on:- single arm vs. bimanual (I went single for cost/space, knowing it rules out things like folding cloth)- not calibrating camera extrinsics/intrinsics for now- RGB vs. RGB-D for from-scratch policies (ACT / Diffusion Policy)And one I'm more confident about but expect disagreement on: not building on ROS 2 / LeRobot, and writing my own stack instead. Happy to get into the reasoning.
HD Hyundai’s Xite Transformation Launches at CES 2024: Revolutionizing Construction with AI, Robotics, Safety, Sustainability, and CollaborationKisun Chung, Vice Chairman and CEO of HD Hyundai, unveiled the company's ambitious vision for the future of construction- the Xite Transformation- in a groundbreaking presentation at CES 2024. This ...