@timkellogg.me“Gemini Robotics 2 Google has renewed focus and energy on robotics This release is 3 models: 1. VLA (vision-language-action) model 2. ER — real-world visual understanding and planning 3. On-device — a local model that adapts to new hardware…”8 likes
safetyGeeeI've kind of given up on humanoid robotics, because of how bad the actuators are. There has been no innovation in robotic actuators since Honda's Asimo. There's just no way that someone wants a 80kg wobbling tin can in their home or workpl…
businessxnxWhile Anthropic and Open AI get 80% of the attention here, it's impressive to see how much Google is doing: near frontier model, fast models, open weight models, image generation, video generation, music generation, robotics, etc.3 replies
hands-oncanyon289I'm a researcher at Deepmind that contributed to these models. (And the opinions here are my own) Just want to say, Deepmind is a great place to work and the only lab where you can move from large frontier models (Gemini), open models (Gem…
vs other modelsFartyMcFarterThese robots look slow and not very fluid in their motions, but LLMs like ChatGPT also looked very dumb initially. If progress is as fast as LLMs , this could have massive applications in a few years.9 replies