A Major Leap In Home Robotics

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I want to share something I've been building as an independent researcher from Indonesia. TL;DR: Face verification model that replaces cosine similarity with sliding window sign pattern matching. Achieves 96.27% on LFW (pre-aligned) with a 10.58 MB model trained on CASIA-WebFace (490k images). When applied to ArcFace embeddings without retraining, IMG Sign Score gets 99.58%…

AI2 manufactures wheeled humanoid robots rather than bipedal systems, trading mobility range for mechanical simplicity and durability. | Credit: Ai2 Robotics AI² Robotics has raised about $735 million in a fresh financing round that pushed its valuation past 50 billion RMB, or about $2.8 billion U.S. The funding positions the Shenzhen-based company among the leaders…

AI, robotics startups capture South Korea’s biggest VC checks  The Korea Economic Daily Global Edition

Today we’re introducing Robostral Navigate, our first model built for embodied navigation. It’s an 8B model that takes RGB images and a plain-language instruction and moves a robot through an environment: “Leave the lobby, walk through the corridor, enter the supply room, and stop to face the second shelf.” To perform such tasks, other models…