2025-02-28
Aria Gen 2 is very impressive, with fully onboard SLAM and various other perception all within a 75g device with an hours-long battery life. Processing on custom silicon. Congrats to the Reality Labs team.
Road to VR
Meta unveils Aria Gen 2, its latest research glasses, with a PPG sensor for measuring heart rate and a contact microphone to distinguish the wearer's voice
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2023-07-30
Large language models and web-scale data have some use in robotics as a user interface as nicely demonstrated here, but in my opinion they are not what we need to help with perception, object representation and precise planning which are the real current barriers in robotics.
New York Times
Google launches RT-2 or Robotics Transformer 2, a “vision-language-action” model trained on text and images from the web that can output robotic actions
Our sneak peek into Google's new robotics model, RT-2, which melds artificial intelligence technology with robots.
2023-07-29
Large language models and web-scale data have some use in robotics as a user interface as nicely demonstrated here, but in my opinion they are not what we need to help with perception, object representation and precise planning which are the real current barriers in robotics.
New York Times
Google launches RT-2 or Robotics Transformer 2, a “vision-language-action” model trained on text and images from the web that can output robotic actions
Our sneak peek into Google's new robotics model, RT-2, which melds artificial intelligence technology with robots.