Lol, this is overhyped and going to crash and burn just like every other "hi-tech' robotics company out there. I work in similar domain and we are trying to automate various manufacturing processes, warehousing using Robot learning , computer vision techniques. The biggest problem with such techniques is that companies cannot bring the robustness of the products close to what is required in the industry. Most of these automation techniques based on ML would sort of work, but not really.
What's worse is Abhinav gupta and Deepak pathak , both profs in CMU, are end to end learning guys with computer vision background and downplay the importance of traditional motion planning and control, so this is unlikely to succeed. Mark my works, in 2 or 3 years time, this startup wouldn't exist
Another biggest flaw in these kind of Robotics startup is the founders are very steadfast in the background that they are from and extremely biased towards certain techniques, even though that may not be optimal or make sense in the Industrial context. For instance, they typically underestimate the importance of haptics and interaction controllers like Impedance / admittance control, as preferring traditional techniques would go directly agaist their research background and life's work. In a lab setting, they could make their RL algorithms to work well in a particular settings but they would typically falls far short of expectations in Industries
In other unrelated news, Nvidia order book grew by $800 million.
Perplexity raises $73.6M from the likes of some big names like Jeff Bezos, Naval, Balaji, NVIDIA. Just last month Mistral raised more than $400M in its second funding. AI based startups are the future I guess?
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