Nvidia debuts 'more intelligent' AI-powered robots; truly self-reliant bots 'further out'

 Tech firm Nvidia continued its pivot from hardware maker to artificial intelligence (AI) developer with the debut of its new robot project following the Figure 01 demonstration.

David Pinto, a senior PR manager at Nvidia, explained, "With advances in generative AI, there has been a steady stream of developments throughout the ecosystem, where foundation models for robotic tasks have expanded the ability to improve the productivity and performance of robotics developers. Has been shown." Fox News Digital.

Nvidia introduced its robot as part of Project GR00T, a major upgrade to Nvidia's AI initiative and a significant step forward in the AI field overall. The project will focus on developing a "foundation model" or generative AI that uses self-supervised learning instead of external instruction or training.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed several robots, including a tiny knee-high Star Wars-themed Disney robot, at the company's GTC conference last week. The GR00T, or Generalist Robot 00 Technology System, is designed to handle robot operations.

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"These productivity benefits span from developing code for robots to generating new simulations to testing and training robots in unstructured environments," Pinto said.

"For the robotics industry to grow at scale, robots themselves will need to become more generalizable. That is, they need to add skills more quickly or bring these skills to new environments," Pinto explained. “Project GR00T is an important initiative toward advancing humanoid robots in many incarnations.

"Foundation models will enable robots to better understand complex environments and execute robot skills and tasks in both simulations and the real world."

Pinto did not address concerns over progress being made in robots with AI models, while large language models (LLMs) continue to develop issues such as the ongoing issue with "hallucinations", in which AI models produce nonsensical results. However, Pinto notes that "true general-purpose embodied autonomy goes further than this."

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Placeholder Nvidia's robot Jetson uses a new computer system called Thor, which is designed to perform complex tasks and interact "safely and naturally with people and machines", with processors heavy enough to run them. Also includes a "system-on-a-chip" to handle the demands. AI model.

Nvidia first played a central role in this field through its chip manufacturing, public engagement with ChatGPT, and mainstream attention on AI models and platforms after countries and companies sought to buy all semiconductor chips and microprocessors on the market.

The company's revenue in the last quarter of 2023 increased by 206% compared to the previous year due to the increase in AI interest and demands. The United Kingdom, for example, has pledged to spend hundreds of millions of pounds buying chips for researchers and developers and remain an industry leader as the nation jockeys for a leading role in AI.

The company's pivot to AI development began in late 2023 and went largely under the radar until The New Yorker ran an article on Huang's efforts to integrate Nvidia's computer graphics research with its generative AI research. Not published.

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Seeing how AI became the company's biggest revenue source after nearly a decade of success selling chips for gaming computers, leadership has begun to showcase AI-focused projects in development, including robots.

"We are already seeing robots becoming more intelligent and able to perform many useful tasks in given environments," Pinto said of Nvidia's robot efforts. Isaac Perceptor is developing advanced AI capabilities for mobile robots and industrial Isaac is bringing the manipulator for manipulation weapons."

"There has been a continued focus on mission-specific problems while making them more generalizable to different industries and use cases."

OpenAI last year partnered with robotics company Figure to add its GPT model to the Figure 01 robot, which broke the Internet with a public demo earlier this month.

The robot provided highly realistic responses and movements, seemed capable of distinguishing between organic and inorganic substances and explained the nuances of its decisions. Some outlets described the robot's activities as falling into an "uncanny valley", where the ability to distinguish between authentic and synthetic becomes almost impossible.

Figure 01 is less than two years old, but managed to convince people like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to invest heavily. According to the Associated Press, Nvidia has also invested in Figma.

"If we can get humanoids to do things that humans don't want to do because there's a shortage of humans, we can sell millions of humanoids, billions maybe," Figure CEO Brett Adcock told The Associated Press last year.