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Essential Tools for a Mechanical Engineer: What's in Your Toolbox?
A list of the most basic tools a mechanical engineer should have on their desk or within arms reach.
Matt Trossen
Sep 13, 2024


Who Will Win the Humanoid Race? The Battle Begins
Will we see humanoid robots in homes and businesses in the next few years?
Matt Trossen
Sep 13, 2024


CrossFormers Whitepaper Review: One Policy for Every Robot
CrossFormers introduce a transformer-based policy that can control a wide variety of robots across different tasks, including manipulation,
Shantanu Parab
Sep 11, 2024


OCTO Whitepaper Review: An Open-Source Generalist Robot Policy
The Short Version Read 'Octo: An Open-Source Generalist Robot Policy' from UC Berkeley, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and Google DeepMind. Shift from task-specific learning to a flexible, generalist approach for training robots. Train on the diverse Open X-Embodiment dataset with its over 800,000 robot trajectories. Use Octo's transformer-based model to handle multiple robots, tasks, and environments without extensive retraining. Apply 'readout tokens' and 'action chunking' to p
Shantanu Parab
Sep 5, 2024


How Does Data Quality Impact Imitation Learning Models?
Discover how variations in data collection impact imitation learning with the Aloha Kit. Explore experiments and access datasets on Hugging
Shantanu Parab
Sep 3, 2024
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