Actuators
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
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Ludwig: Actuator overheating is a major physical failure point in humanoid robotics
“In these humanoid robotics systems, overheating actuators is a real problem, right? So obviously phenomenal demos. The most amazing I can get. I love watching robots do acrobatics like everybody, but The systems actually overheat, right?”
Karpathy: AI innovation will move from digital unhobbling to physical interfaces
“First, there's gonna be a huge amount of unhobbling, and I think there's a huge amount of work there. Then, actually, it's going to move to, like, the interfaces between physical and digital. So, and that's, like, sensors of, like, seeing the world and actuato…”
Adcock: Actuator and battery improvements allow fully electric humanoid robots
“We've now had torque density and power density of actuators and battery systems get good enough where you can run, like, fully electric systems instead of hydraulic systems, and that makes the robot smaller, lighter weight, quieter, faster like, you can run, t…”