A 1X presenter discusses Redwood AI, a system for controlling the Neo robot to do household chores; the demonstration takes place in a home.
The presenter says chores require Neo to understand commands, move around, and handle objects. Redwood combines language control, locomotion, and whole-body manipulation in one neural network.
Redwood can grasp objects in positions that differ from those in its training data. The presenter also demonstrates Neo picking up a bottle it had not encountered during training.
Redwood controls Neo's entire body, allowing it to bend to reach distant objects and use multiple contact points to open a door. The presenter gives squatting to put clothes in a washing machine as another example.
The system is early in development and may not succeed on the first attempt. The presenter says failure data helps improve the model, and that home deployments will provide multimodal interactions with the physical world to support learning.
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