F.03s everywhere, and Jim Fan teases CoRL Monday
Humanoid Scott says that at a conference in September you could not walk between rooms without dodging Figure F.03s, and one photobombed his group photo. Brett Adcock just posted the robots again.
The big one
Brett Adcock posts F.03 humanoids, and someone says he already met them
Brett Adcock posted F.03 humanoid robots, Figure's latest machine, and the most useful reply was from someone who says he has already seen them in the wild. Humanoid Scott says his group ran into F.03s at a conference in September, and one turned up in their group photo.
You couldn't walk between conference rooms without dodging F.03s.
Shown this week
Jim Fan says Monday's CoRL reveal is real robots, autonomous, no speedup
Jim Fan is teasing a CoRL keynote in Austin on Monday November 9 at 1:45pm, and when asked whether it was sim or real hardware he answered: real, autonomous, no speedup. Yuke Zhu says it is a sneak peek of what NVIDIA GEAR has been building. No capability, task or metric has been named yet.
Real. Autonomous, no speedup
CMU's Pixel learns fridge and packing tasks with no teleoperation at all
More detail landed on CMU's Pixel wheeled humanoid, and the number attached to it is 87.0% average task progress across five whole-body tasks, per Lukas Ziegler's writeup. The companion method, Pixel-UMI, rebuilds the scene from the demo's own depth data and retargets a person's head and hand motion into collision-aware robot motion.