Embodied AI 101

Shaoqing Tan

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Episodes 24

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August 29 · 31 min
Feeling Around Corners: STRP Compresses Fingertip Force into Directional Touch
High-voltage grid maintenance and chemical processing demand dexterous manipulation in confined, visually occluded environments. Existing teleoperation systems present a severe cost–fidelity trade-off: industrial platforms exceed USD 60,000 yet lack spati
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August 28 · 29 min
Give the Swarm a Pheromone Compass
Search-and-rescue (SAR) operations in disaster environments require drone swarms to coordinate efficiently despite incomplete information and potential communication failures. Existing stigmergy-based approaches provide low-bandwidth coordination but rely
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August 28 · 36 min
When Every Weld Looks the Same: Language-Labeled Graphs for Industrial Localization
Abstract As industries increasingly move towards automation, the ability to visually localize objects and accurately estimate their pose, including rigid and non-rigid transformations, becomes critical. Conventional pose estimation methods are...
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August 27 · 26 min
When Robot Eyes Converge: Active Stereo for Humanoid Depth
The design of robotic binocular camera systems has been inspired by human vision, as has their use in humanoid robots. One aspect of this inspiration has yet to play a role in robotics: convergent binocular stereo, where the cameras are angled inward to o
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