Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.23
…and understand sensor and robot information as magically as ChatGPT for text. This enables robot perception and decision-making like never before and provides zero-shot learning - the ability to perform tasks without prior examples. NVIDIA’s collaboration with Intrinsic, a robotics software and AI company, demonstrates the potential for a universally applicable robotic-grasping skill to work across grippers, environments and objects. “For the broader industry, our work with NVIDIA shows how foundation models can have a profound impact, including making today's processing challenges easier to manage at scale, creating previously infeasible applications, reducing development costs and increasing flexibility for end users,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.29
…present a technical preview of TwinCAT Chat, which integrates ChatGPT directly into the controls environment. “Now engineers can harness generative AI to automate everything from debugging and adding notes to programming function blocks from scratch,” it asserted. Beckhoff will provide TwinCAT programming stations so that PACK EXPO visitors can try these features out for themselves. Motion systems to see at PACK EXPO Beckhoff Automation also plans to present the latest updates in adaptive automation with its XPlanar “flying motion” system and linear XTS linear transport solution. XTS, which the company said has “revolutionized thousands of machines worldwide,” will return to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.62
…work in computer vision with LLMs, the technology underpinning ChatGPT. “PickGPT is the first commercially-available robotics transformer that enables robots to understand natural language and perceive their environment with an unprecedented level of intelligence and accuracy,” the company said. “This democratizes access to robotics by allowing users with no technical expertise to instruct and debug the system in a simple chatbot interface.” Since its founding in 2021, Sereact said it has achieved technological milestones such as speeds of 1,500 picks per hour, collision-free picking with any gripper, and fully autonomous object manipulation. Today, Sereact serves partners across the e-commerce, manufacturing,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.50
ChatGPT is a popular topic of discussion, but how can such technology help manufacturers and other robotics users? Groundlight last week announced the launch of its visual understanding service based on natural language instructions. The Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup claimed that its service enables any developer to understand images programmatically using simple English-language instructions and just a few lines of code. Groundlight said its platform can be easily integrated into applications such as industrial automation, process monitoring, retail analytics, video stream analysis, and robotics. This pilot service is now available to select customers. “As the most powerful AI models get…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.29
…center, those kinds of connections happen. With technologies like ChatGPT, it seems like AI is becoming more graspable to regular people. You are talking about bringing this multi-disciplinary approach to understanding AI. Was that intentional on your part knowing that these things are converging, or was it kind of like a happy accident? I think it is just kind of a happy accident that we were sitting in the right place at the right time for all of this to happen. Everyone who belongs to our center right now was already working on AI in various areas. All the new…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.11
…One standing-room-only panel discussion looked at how AI and ChatGPT will affect robotics, from making coding easier and faster to improving human-machine interfaces. However, venture capital firms and software providers both told me that much of the current hype around AI doesn't reflect how it will eventually help robots be smarter and more useful. “Industrial computing is the secret sauce,” said Jason Waldman, business development manager at industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) provider Advantech. “Customers need support for things like edge AI and our Valor workstation, not just for 18 months, but for up to seven years.” “ChatGPT marks an…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.85
…assess current robotics trends. From venture capital constraints to ChatGPT, Dr. Bernard Casse, founder and CEO of RIOS Intelligent Machines Inc., has experience and first-hand observations from recent events. RIOS said it is leading the charge in re-industrializing America and transforming aging industries into the smart factories of the future powered by robotics and artificial intelligence. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company both exhibited and presented at ProMat 2023. Dr. Casse shared with Robotics 24/7 a compelling vision of a future where robotics and automation are the driving forces of economic progress, even amid economic limitations. He emphasized the transformative power…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.91
…particularly in the perceptions of the public and policymakers. ChatGPT is flashy, and many in the media make people think about fears rather than opportunities. Artificial intelligence is going to have a significant impact in robotics. Right now, the hype around the pace of development is oustripping the actual pace of practical applications in manufacturing, logistics, and many other industries. Policymakers get all ginned up about jobs, but we should focus on developing applications where those technologies improve our ability to do things. People are worried about robotic battlefields. That's not to diminish the importance of their concerns, but that's…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.38
…computers past CPU capabilities to large language models and ChatGPT, Huang said technology and industry are at a positive “tipping point.” Omniverse hosts simulations in real time “With generative AI, you could tell a robot what you want, and it could generate animations,” Huang claimed. He showed videos that took into account real-world physics and lighting and ran in simulation without any pre-programming. NVIDIA Omniverse connects computer-aided design (CAD) software, APIs, and frameworks for generative AI running on Microsoft's Azure cloud using real-time factory data and 5G networking, enabling collaboration among multiple users around the world. “Everything is ray-traced. We…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.60
…(CSAIL). While the former is better known today for ChatGPT, in 2018, it made headlines by training a human-like robot hand to manipulate physical objects with unprecedented dexterity by using a reinforcement learning algorithm and code. CSAIL also relied on advances in deep learning to reorient a robotic hand to handle over 2,000 objects. As the pace of AI innovation continues to accelerate, we’re not far from seeing deep learning models for robotic dexterity deployed in real-world assembly lines. Giving robots awareness of their hands and feet The final sense of touch that humans need to pass on to robots…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.10
…are the basis of recent generative AI applications like ChatGPT and DALL-E. A transformer model learns context and meaning by tracking the relationship between elements in sequential data, eliminating the need for a large labeled dataset, explained NVIDIA. Jetson Orin Nano includes support for: City Segmentation for segmenting urban cityscapes into different classes PeopleNet Transformer based on the Deformable Detection Transformer BERT for natural language processing (NLP) Jetson software accelerates AI and TTM Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit runs the NVIDIA AI software stack, with available use-case-specific application frameworks. These include NVIDIA Isaac for robotics, NVIDIA DeepStream for vision AI,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.08
…model developed at a surprisingly rapid pace (such as ChatGPT). These models are designed for multi-modal inputs and will dominate the AI landscape over the next years. This report will analyze their potential in manufacturing. Rapid re-tasking and robot agility: The need for lot-size-one production and flexible manufacturing requires rethinking the current deployment approach to robotics, where robots are often deployed for one specific purpose. Discovery Workshops/Market Analysis for Space and Hypersonics Project team: ASTM International (principal investigator) Topic areas addressed: Discovery workshops and market studies Description: This project will center on two topics: terrestrial manufacturing for space and manufacturing…