[treespace8]

This looks impressive. Much more than even the Boston Dynamics demonstrations.

Flipping a pancake is extremely difficult because each pancake is different. I know that these videos must be cherry-picked but to be able to train a Robot to do this just by demonstrating feels like a massive leap.

[sashank_1509]

Flipping a pancake was done in 2010. What looks impressive for humans is easy for robots and vice versa: https://youtu.be/W_gxLKSsSIE?si=HDyNXe1Ys_eFXiVU Another case in point: robot juggling was done in 1990s and to date we do not have a robot that can open any door reliably like a human. Kind of like Moravecs Paradox

[LostLocalMan]

To be fair it is far more complex for a robot to grip a spatula and use that spatula on a griddle than to use dynamic motion to flip a pancake in a pan.

[irtefa]

Yes! In layman's terms: is the most efficient way to train these robots by showing them billions of videos of how it's done?

[GlenTheMachine]

Almost certainly not. Because the sense of touch is an important part of the problem and that data isn’t present in videos.

[dclowd9901]

And here I thought manual labor jobs were safe for a very long time. I really hope people at the policy level are thinking about what it looks like to have a world of people that don’t have any work to do.