I'm a robotics noob currently building a prototype of a snow sweeping robot (www.frost-e.com) using my own design and I'm encouraged to see similar work coming from real places. Namely:

- Zero shot control using a visual harness and action primitives. I've seen this from a few other places as well (https://tml.stanford.edu/homebody/) and it's essentially having a generalist LLM command a robot via a set of predefined actions. Many robots and many tasks can probably be done with this approach, since not everything needs super intricate 6DoF arms or dexterity

- simulation bring-ups: I have a pipeline that takes in satellite imagery and reconstructs the lots and houses in a 3D environment and snows on it so that my virtual robot can learn to clean. With these latest models, you can probably create a higher fidelity digital twin more directly.

- self-improvement: These models (Argon, Astra, etc) can't operate the robot itself, but would be able to create data to distill into smaller models you can actually utilize.

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jrflo 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Is that an AI generated product demo video? Because I personally would not sign up for a $1000/mo service if the main demo video isn't even real...

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tenuousemphasis 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Enshittification right from the start...

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martythemaniak 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Of course (the watermark is in the lower right), it's just a visualization. I'm spending my money buying parts for the prototype instead of professional renders.

	▲	jrflo 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You need to disclose that more clearly, at first glance I thought your actual prototype was pictured in the video until I noticed the snow just magically disappeared. I didn't even notice the watermark, and even if I had I wouldn't know that the random 4-pointed star meant "AI Generated Video". I'd much rather see videos of a prototype than a fictional video that has no bearing on how the thing actually works. Especially since you list pricing on your website, making visitors think it's a currently-operating business.