Robots that can fold laundry autonomously: Exploring recent advancements in generalist robots
Plus: Is chain-of-thought a sign of genuine reasoning in LLMs?
Greetings, fellow humans! Do you dislike folding laundry as much as I do? I have good news for you — Physical Intelligence (Pi), a startup, is working on building generalist robot models with policies capable of solving long-horizon, dexterous tasks like unloading a dryer and folding laundry.
On Thursday, February 13, Danny Driess, a research scientist at Physical Intelligence (Pi), will share with the BuzzRobot community the technical details behind their generalist robot models.
Learn more about the talk and register here. The talk is virtual.
Next Thursday, February 20, our guest Akshara Prabhakar, an Applied Scientist at Salesforce AI, will give a talk on the chain-of-thought (CoT) method, exploring whether this approach demonstrates genuine reasoning in LLMs or if it’s driven by shallow heuristics like memorization.
Learn more and register here. This talk is also virtual.
If you're in the SF Bay Area and interested in attending our in-person talks, we are hosting Kathleen Kenealy, a research engineer and technical lead at Google DeepMind for Gemma—a family of open language models. She will cover the architecture and training methodology behind Gemma, emphasizing techniques for efficient scaling and resource optimization.
Learn more and register to attend. The talk is in person. I hope to see you there!
I’d also like to share video recordings of recent lectures we hosted.
Check out this talk on AlphaQubit, an AI-based decoder that identifies quantum computing errors with high accuracy. It’s a great example of how AI and quantum computing complement each other—not just buzzwords! 🙂
Watch the lecture about AlphaQubit
Another recent lecture focused on identifying AI-generated text and the watermarking technology behind it.
Watch the lecture about Synth-ID Text
Meta recently introduced CoTracker, a model capable of tracking 2D points in long video sequences. The tracker has cool applications in robotics and life sciences. This talk covers CoTracker and CoTracker 3.