Embodied is targeting repetitive manipulation tasks where the current state-of-the-art in automation is simply not capable enough, as well as tasks that would require robots to be reprogrammed very frequently. “On a practical level,” Abbeel says, “we’re building a software system that can learn new skills very, very quickly, which makes it very different from traditional automation.”
The idea is that with a flexible enough learning framework, programming becomes trivial, because the robot can rapidly teach itself new skills with just a little bit of human demonstration at the beginning. As Abbeel explains, “The big difference is that we bring software that we only have to write once, ahead of time, for all applications. And then to make the robot capable for a specific application, all we need to do is collect new data for that application. That’s a paradigm shift from needing to program for every specific task you care about to programming once and then just doing data collection, either through demonstrations or reinforcement learning.”
I would go slow to invest my money on an area where jobs are the cause of anything. Our loved SV is the classic elevator situation, it goes up and down. All it matters, if there’s a rebound, if you are on the up or on the down.
Even in the construction industry, there are some robots that can lay bricks as any mason guy, I doubt they will take over construction but you kind of see where any trade is going, “replacing humans with robots”. And high tech is not strange to that idea.
Wow, stopped by to see action here (none) and saw you posting…
Sheet, SFH values in the Fab 7x7 are smokin’ hot!!! Ave SF home is now over 2M. Believe me, if not for the capital gains, I would keep my home in the peninsula and not move back and just sell our Sunset home that I just paid off that wonderful 2.5% loan I had. Now, need to re-establish primary residency in the Sunset so that maybe in my wildest dreams (like hitting the lottery) Trump or Congress will raise the cap gain exclusion some to 1M or just delete it for primary homes. Sigh, we can dream…
The choice is clear in SF . The commie or the pervert Wiener. I am backing the commie. As much as it pains me to agree with Pelosi. Let’s face it both Wiener and Chan are communists.
