Malik and Goldberg spar over credit for 3D vision
Ken Goldberg thanked computer vision researchers for solving robotics years ago, and Jitendra Malik took the bait. Also: an arm that throws a baseball at 113 km/h, and a bimanual robot on a Lululemon parcel line.
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RAI's AthenaZero throws a baseball at 113 km/h
Lukas Ziegler wrote up AthenaZero from the RAI Institute, on this month's cover of Science Robotics, throwing a baseball at 113 km/h.
Throwing a baseball is just the most legible way to prove you have it.
Out in the world
X Square's dual-arm robot is sorting parcels at a Lululemon center
X Square says its QUANTA X1 Pro wheeled bimanual robot is handling and organizing parcels as part of daily operations at Lululemon's Wuhan Distribution Center, which opened September 16. The company says this follows a live dual-arm logistics demo at WRC, and that the center was built with SF Logistics using end-to-end RFID processes.
Teleop and other arguments
Malik tells Goldberg computer vision did not solve robotics
Jitendra Malik wrote that 3D/4D reconstruction is one of computer vision's great achievements and is directly relevant to robotics, and asked people to credit human researchers, not just AI models, now that Astra has rediscovered the capability. Ken Goldberg quote-tweeted it with a one-line thanks to CV for solving robotics so long ago.
Thank you computer vision researchers for solving robotics so many years ago!