Surprisingly a robot can sometimes do highly-dynamic manipulation by just copying the demonstration 🤠. Without any learning, cracking a whip or lassoing a cleat can be done directly from human motion capture. And amazingly this process can be nearly automatically implemented by GPT-6 Astra
Check out the full blog post with fun visuals: t.co/Ze6tDOSZV8
Turn on sound for full effect 🔈
Quick side note: the whips shown in this post are called signal/stock whips. These whips are built to generate the loud cracking noise when the tip breaks the sound barrier and is a popular art form: t.co/GYz0lxEFSu.
Robots & gadgets
A robot cracks a whip and lassos a cleat by copying human motion
There is no learning involved: the robot replays a human demonstration from motion capture, and GPT-6 Astra implemented that process almost automatically. The whips are signal whips, built so the tip breaks the sound barrier.
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- GPT-6 Astra
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- PhD student, CMU Robotics Institute
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