TOP 5* Robots of 2023 That Will Have an Impact on You In 2024

Look back at 2023 to see some of the most fascinating developments in robotics this year! I had gone through 142 article, many more videos and picked a few robots (or robotic technologies) for five distinct categories, that will have influence on our lives next year and beyond.
List of sources:
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Special shout-out to ‪@ThomasBurns‬ (animatronic Alexa), ‪@AaedMusa‬ (robotic dog with custom actuators), ‪@HowToMechatronics‬ (3D printed tank) - give them some love and watch time!

[@exploring-electronic]

Highly subjective indeed 😂 to add, there was some cutting edge RL research from Toyota and Nvidia (using LLM to craft reward function) this year too

[@Hardwareai]

Good point! I read about them, but I think that Google's RT-2 while not extremely novel (take Transformer, throw GPU and data at it - PROFIT?), it is able to generalize better.

[@ryeant]

it seems that your video links are not working. i'm trying to find an opensource dog robot project to build that uses reinforcement learning but i can't find one that matches my level of programming knowledge

[@Hardwareai]

There are a lot of links in the Github gist - any specific one that is not working? > opensource dog robot project to build that uses reinforcement learning but i can't find one that matches my level of programming knowledge Reinforcement learning is quite hard. I don't think there is anything for beginners. There is this robot though, which uses RL and looks beginner friendly github.com/upkie/upkie