Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This view runs counter to those who believe that robotics, powered by a general foundation model, is about to have
We have boxing robots, but can they screw in a nail? Designing a useful human hand for humanoids is recognized as one of the more difficult engineering challenges within the robotics industry. Elon Musk, the man who wants to put data centers in space and colonize Mars, can also admit that. “The hands and arms
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Citrini Research says that AI-enabled robotics are a budding mega-trend for investors to pay attention to. The firm, which went viral for a hypothetical AI doomsday scenario, laid out its bullish thesis on robotics as the next growth phase of the AI trade, noting the progress being made in China. It highlighted the World Humanoid
Travis Kalanick’s new robotics startup, Atoms, has scooped up a high-profile hire. Vikas Chandra, a longtime Meta AI executive who led AI work for the company’s smart glasses, announced Monday that he is joining the startup as vice president of AI. At Atoms, Chandra said he will build “foundation models for the physical world” —
