What started as a call for help brought CMU researchers and their snake robots to Venezuela, where they joined search and rescue teams working to explore spaces too dangerous or difficult for people to reach.
The story behind the mission:
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- @siddvoh recently showed that LLMs intermittently invent false information when responding to medical questions 🏥⁉️ Sidd's findings reinforce a critical concern he sees in AI industry: users often assume models understand more than they actually do.
- RIO, a new framework from CMU, provides a unified interface for robot control, data collection, teleoperation and AI deployment! It gives researchers a lightweight, modular foundation for deploying robots quickly on any platform.
- Residents from a Baptist Senior Family living community visited Zackory Erickson’s Robotic Caregiving & Human Interaction Lab! RCHI works closely with the residents to test their assistive robots. It was a unique opportunity for them to see live demos & meet the students! 😄
- VideoManip could eliminate the need for robot demonstrations or specialized motion-capture systems, making it easier for robots to learn how to use everyday objects! 🦾📺 #CMUrobotics This is cool stuff, folks ➡️ ri.cmu.edu/cmu-researcher…How far can we push dexterous robot manipulation with human video-only supervision and minimal assumptions? 🚫 No teleop. 🚫 No wearables. 🚫 No external sensors. 🚫 No robot demos. Introducing VIDEOMANIP: 🎥 Just monocular RGB, 🌍 in-the-wild human video → dexterous robot
