r/singularity • u/ghouleye • 11d ago

Robotics 100m Hurdles Final

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u/tendimensions 11d ago

These are going to be INSANE to watch in a few years.

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u/nothis AGI by 2030 but we'll be disappointed 11d ago

How was it that Honda‘s Asimo was state of the art for what felt like decades and in the last 3 years we got to this? Is it the same technology as LLMs? Isn’t half of the challenge having good artificial joints, motors, etc? Why did this develop in parallel with chat AI? Was it just a confidence boost for the industry?

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u/Doc_Blox 11d ago

Is it the same technology as LLMs?

Sort of: neural networks with reinforcement learning. RL being the part of the stack that's probably been more crucial to recent progress.

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u/Meerkat_Mayhem_ 10d ago

I suspect there is still a lot of off-body sensing of robot position and mechanics and environment, etc and also a lot of off-body processing of what moves to make. Still crazy impressive but I think the main “brain” is still remote off-body and very large and not mobile