On this episode, we speak to Matt Casella from Richtech Robotics in regards to the Adam bartending robotic, after which to Chris Padwick from John Deere about creating imaginative and prescient fashions for spraying weeds within the subject. Each interviews occurred in the course of the NVIDIA GTC24 occasion in March, and each corporations leverage NVIDIA know-how of their robotic options.
Richtech Robotics: https://www.richtechrobotics.com/
John Deere Autonomous Options: https://www.deere.com/en/sprayers/see-spray/
Present Timeline
23:54 Interview with Matt Casella, CEO of Richtech Robotics
44:14 Interview with Chris Padwick, Director of Machine Imaginative and prescient Studying, from John Deere
Information from the week
This week, Boston Dynamics unveiled the electrical Atlas humanoid robotic
On Tuesday this week, Boston Dynamics retired the earlier model of Atlas after about 15 years of improvement. It paved the best way for quite a few different humanoid robots. As lots of you might have in all probability seen on YouTube, Atlas was surprisingly agile, given its hydraulics and bulk. In actual fact, Atlas received an RBR50 award for its demonstration of operating and delivering instruments at a simulated building website at Boston Dynamics’ Waltham headquarters. On the identical time, the corporate has not been shy about exhibiting the various falls and missteps on the best way to profitable bipedal locomotion and more and more dexterous manipulation.
On Wednesday, Boston Dynamics introduced a brand new, all-electric model meant for eventual business use.
Mentee Robotics decloaks and unveils Mentee humanoid robotic
Mentee Robotics got here out of stealth in the present day and unveiled its first bipedal humanoid robotic prototype. An skilled staff based the Herzliya, Israel firm in 2022. It contains Prof. Amnon Shashua, the chairman of Mentee Robotics, an professional in AI, laptop imaginative and prescient, pure language processing and different associated fields.
The firm‘s founders additionally embrace Prof. Lior Wolf, the CEO of Mentee Robotics and previously a analysis scientist and director at Fb AI Analysis, and Prof. Shai Shalev-Shwartz, a pc scientist and machine studying researcher.
Locus Robotics surpasses 3B picks simply 33 weeks after its final milestone
Locus Robotics Corp. in the present day introduced that it has surpassed 3 billion complete picks throughout its international buyer deployments. The corporate reached this milestone simply 33 weeks after it recorded its 2 billionth choose. It claimed that the achievement underscores its continued speedy progress and solidifies its place as a pacesetter in autonomous robotics automation for the warehouse.
BREAKING STORY: CA Committee Passes Autonomous Automobile Ban Laws
On Wednesday, the California Senate Committee on Native Authorities handed autonomous car laws (SB 915) permitting native municipalities to ban and tax AV deployment. Final yr was one in all California’s deadliest for roadway fatalities, largely due to human behaviors together with distracted driving, drunk driving, and dashing. The laws by Sen. Cortese takes management away from state-level companies just like the DMV and California Public Utilities Fee (CPUC) which have accredited the rollout of secure autonomous automobiles.