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Installing Open-Source AI In A Commercial Robot

Using just open-source AIs, researchers got a commercial robot to find and move objects around a room it had never entered before. The bot isn’t perfect, but it suggests we might not be as far from sharing our homes with domestic robots as experts previously believed.

A major holdup in the home robot revolution is the fact that building a robot that could work in anyone’s home is a lot harder than training one to work in a controlled lab environment.

However, using only open-source software, researchers at NYU and Meta, modified a commercially available robot so that it could move objects around a room it had never entered before on demand. They call the system “OK-Robot,” and detail the work in a paper shared on the preprint server arXiv.

How does it work?

The bot at the core of the OK-Robot system is called Stretch (you can buy one for just $19,950, plus shipping and taxes). Stretch has a wheeled base, a vertical pole, and a robotic arm that can slide up and down the pole. At the end of the arm is a gripper that allows the bot to grasp objects.

To turn the robot into something humans can talk to, the team equipped it with vision-language models (VLMs) — AIs trained to understand both images and words — as well as pre-trained navigation and grasping models.

They then created a 3D video of a room using the iPhone app Record3D and shared it with the robot — that process took about six minutes. After that, they could give the robot a text command to move an object in the room to a new location, and it would locate the object and move it.

They tested OK-Robot in 10 rooms. In each room, they choose 10-20 objects that could fit in the robot’s gripper and told it to move them (one at a time) to another part of the room (“Move the soda can to the box,” “Move the Takis on the desk to the nightstand,” etc.).

Overall, the robot had a 58.5% success rate at completing the tasks. But in rooms that were less cluttered, its success rate was much higher: 82.4%.

Even though OK-Robot can only do one thing (and doesn’t always do it right), the fact that it relies on off-the-shelf models and doesn’t require any special training to work in a new environment — just a video of the room — is pretty remarkable.

The next step for the team will be open sourcing their code so that others can build off of what they’ve started — and potentially help get domestic robots doing our chores sooner than predicted.

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OpenAI Is Developing Software Agents

OpenAI is developing two new AI agent software capable of automating traditional office work tasks.

Have you ever had to pull an Excel file, manipulate the data, and send it to your manager?

Do you remember it being a tedious, pain-in-the-ass?

Well, with what OpenAI has cooking up, this frustration may be a thing of the past.

OpenAI is in the development of two new AI agents poised to automate complex tasks traditionally done by humans. Specifically, they are creating:

Desktop Taskmasters: These handle intricate tasks like data transfer between docs, expense report automation, and software interaction. Basically, they become your digital assistants for repetitive tasks.

Web-Based Wizards: These gather public data, create itineraries, and book flights, streamlining research and travel planning.

While there is no timetable as to when these will be released, in short, OpenAI is doing what OpenAI does best – disrupting the modern workplace.

In the meantime, continue to learn as much as you can about AI by reading, umm, i-don’t-know this, and upskill yourself to take advantage of the rising tide.

Cheers to an easier, less monotonous future.