AI-powered robot maker Covariant debuts RFM-1, an AI model the company says can process physics, may limit the need for bespoke robotics programming, and more
Copied! — Watch Covariant's demos to view an overview of RFM-1's language and physics capabilities. Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Covariant develops video-generating AI model for powering warehouse robots Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum : Covariant Announces a Universal AI Platform for Robots James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review : An OpenAI spinoff has built an AI model that helps robots learn tasks like humans RoboticsTomorrow.com : Covariant Introduces RFM-1 to Give Robots the Human-like Ability to Reason Will Knight / Wired : The Quest to Give AI Chatbots a Hand—and an Arm Threads: Adam Cook / @motorcityadam : 🧵1/2 Hmm. So, here again, we have some systems-level issues to discuss. One of the notes that should have been included in this article is that the “highly structured [manufacturing] environments” are, oftentimes, DEMANDED by the product lifecycle AND/OR the safety lifecycle. … X: Peter Chen / @peterxichen : Advances in open-source base LLMs and the increasing availability of large amount of image-text dataset alo mean that RFM-1 can fluently handle text tokens as input and output, which open up a lot of product possibilities on how people and robots can collaborate. (4/n) [video] Peter Chen / @peterxichen : At Covariant, we have been deploying robots to the real world and thinking hard about how to build truly AI for general purpose robots that can go beyond demos. For a long time, we are building up large robotics datasets through our deployments without the right model that can... @covariantai : Today, we are introducing RFM-1, our Robotics Foundation Model giving robots human-like reasoning capabilities. [video] Forums: r/artificial : Covariant is building ChatGPT for robots