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An older robot got vision and voice control in one pass

Aaron Ng's team at Mecha handed Astra control of Spike, one of their older robots. It built a harness around the existing locomotion policy, added computer vision and voice commands, then told them to just run it.

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Robotics at Mecha, founded Apollo AI
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Aaron Ng@localghost

a new era of robotics is imminent. we gave astra control of our older robot “spike”

it built a harness around our locomotion policy, added computer vision, voice commands, and told us to just run it

incredible what AI can one-shot now

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