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World models, robot learning and connected systems. Exploring what it takes for intelligence to act in the physical world.
9 articles by Ajay Cyril
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Jim Fan’s talk reveals the bigger shift: AI is moving from predicting tokens to predicting the physical world I watched Jim Fan’s Sequoia AI Ascent talk expecting a robotics update. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y8aq_ofEVs But…
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I read two really insightful articles on robotics recently, and they left me with a question I would ask - what exactly is the model really responsible for? A general-purpose model like the ones behind ChatGPT…
I recently read about Anthropic’s announcement about Model Hardware Standard, for connecting AI agents to physical hardware. And while the demos are interesting, I am struggling to see what's so special. Just…
At a mine in Australia, a truck the size of a small building can work through the night without a driver in the cab. Komatsu has now commissioned 1,000 autonomous ultra-class haul trucks, which have…
First try the live demo here - https://open-physical-ai-workbench.vercel.app/ Most robotics demos show motion. Useful, but not the same thing as a robotics system. The next generation of robotics will be…
Why Legacy IoT Architecture Breaks When AI Starts Taking Action Cool dashboards are not enough IoT has had a good run with surface-level sophistication. For years, it was fairly easy to make a platform look…
The robotics industry just hit its iPhone moment. 1X Technologies has launched NEO - a $20K humanoid robot that’s still tele-operated today but built to train tomorrow’s autonomous workforce. What powers this…
Why everyone on the shop floor will be wearing these glasses Meta’s new Orion AR Glasses are poised to bring advanced AI capabilities right to the shop floor, marking a transformative shift in how industries…
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