MENGENAI EPISOD INI
Claire Zau and Josh Machiz break down a week about robot bodies, robot brains, and the data underneath both. Humanoid robots broke three human world records at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, where more than 600 teams and 2,000 robots competed across 51 events, up from roughly 280 teams and 26 events last year. One robot beat Usain Bolt's 9.58 second 100 meter record, and last year's winning time was 21.50. The hosts argue the sprints are the fanfare and the scenario events are the harder test, since a robot that outruns Bolt still cannot open a jar, fold socks, or stack cardboard. Unitree, which the hosts compare to Boston Dynamics, also went public in Shanghai.
Skild AI launched S1, a model the company says lets a robot watch one video of a person doing a task and then do it, with no teleoperation and no retraining. Teaching a robot a new task used to mean 50 to 100 hours of puppeteering data. Skild says ingesting the video takes about 11 minutes, and pancake flipping was not in the roughly one million hours behind the model. Both hosts call it the ChatGPT moment for robotics. Lightspeed participated in Skild's Series A. The episode closes on Google's roughly $10 million bid for Spirit Airlines' digital estate in bankruptcy, a package holding about 100 million emails, 500 million Teams messages, 30 million recorded service calls, and 7.5 billion passenger transaction records. Google says a third party will scrub personal information first. Mercor bid $7.5 million, micro1 came in higher after the auction closed, existing employees have not consented to their workplace communications becoming training data, and the sale still needs judicial sign off.
Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to Lightwork
0:59 Robots Beat Human World Records
4:01 What Happened at the Robot Games?
9:14 UniTree Goes Public in Shanghai
12:29 Skild AI’s S1: The ChatGPT Moment for Robotics
16:20 The ChatGPT Moment For Robotics
18:40 In-Context Learning, But For Robots
21:04 Google Wants Spirit Airlines’ Data
23:35 What's Valuable Inside A Digital Estate
28:58 Closing Thoughts
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Robots Outrun Usain Bolt, Skild's ChatGPT Moment & Google Bids $10M for Spirit Data | Lightwork
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