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Canada
#41  

I agree discord is a bit messy but some do a good job at categorizing a creating channels similiar to a forum

FOSS AI models are catching up with GPT now so really Athena should be something you can run for very little cost. You can experiment with Apple computer, it is a little slow but because of their architecture you can pretty much run all models on their platform without setting up a custom GPU AI rig.   My AI Rig has 6 RTX3090’s running and is quite fast (total cost about 7K CAD).  You can train a model like LLAMA 3 with the synthiam knowledge base and then pretty much run it for just the cost of power and bandwidth.

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Canada
#42  

@Jeremie I think the BLDC thing is a me 2 play and they already had BLDC with SPOT but I still think they are going to need hydraulics to move any decent size payloads. I have not seen any of the humanoids actually do any actual work apart from moving very light objects around.

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Canada
#43   — Edited

My guess is a bunch of pre-programmed gestures and some telerobotics but you be the judge.

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Canada
#45  

Impressive work from this little startup.  The robots taping up the boxes looks like telerobotics but the first two arms appear to be autonomous using AI.  Can’t wait till synthiam does this.  

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Canada
#47  

LOL yeah looks like me wrapping Christmas presents.

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Synthiam
#48  

I don't know if that box taping is AI, as it looks more like it's human-controlled. I'm guessing that's a demo example of mixing automation with remote control. AI would be smoother and not notice some things, such as flattening the tape-at least not without significant delays between movements, etc.

But on that note, the most difficult challenge we'll be up against as we continue to evaluate how to implement more automation is what tools are available and how accessible those tools are. There hasn't been an "all-in-one" installer of a single tool or library that can be a central library/dependency for machine learning motion planning, etc... Synthiam provides a significant amount of data to researchers from the Exosphere system, which is used for many of the robots you see in media. But, I don't like to be the guy who uncovers the mechanical turk - let's say there's a lot less reliable/repeatable robot AI out there than you think.

The industry of AI and automation (Robotics) is still relatively primitive. So, to perform any simple task, one must install, compile, and configure several different programs, libraries, hardware, and so on.