Robotic Manipulation
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Levine: Robotic manipulation depends on real-world data over simulation
“There are the approaches that work well for robotic manipulation that often are the opposite. They often use very little simulated data, often use large amounts of real world data, and very large foundation models.”
Hausman: Simulation fails for robotic manipulation due to real-world object diversity
“It hasn't worked nearly as well for manipulating objects or working with your hands, and I think the reason for that is then the difficulty isn't about, like, how do you move your hands? It's more about the world that you're manipulating, and that is much hard…”
Groom: Physical Intelligence prioritizes manipulation tasks over conversational UI
“It's not a big focus of ours right now, really. We're so focused on, on manipulation and economically valuable tasks and more so than that, the fundamental building blocks that we think gets us from here to physical intelligence.”
Chen: Simulating robotic manipulation is harder than autonomous driving due to contact
“When you think about simulation in self-driving car, like we are really mostly thinking about systems that hopefully don't physically interact with each other, right? Like if two cars get in contact with each other, that's a really terrible thing, right? And s…”
Sofman: Robotic manipulation lags autonomous driving by five to six years
“Manipulation is today is probably where autonomous driving was five or six years ago, where you can already see the capability starting to take form, but the reliability and cost constraints are still pretty prohibitive, but you can kind of extrapolate where i…”