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I embodied Claude, allowing it to see the world with the help of ARKit and move around freely with a hoverboard robot base.
That's very cool! A little over a year ago, I started on a large bot(currently weighing in at about 16 pounds) with the intent of turning it over to something akin to Claude. You did a fantastic job coming up with this.
Would love to see you do this!
Have you shared it someplace besides Twitter for those of us who will not visit that site anymore? (much of the content requires login now too)
thanks & neat! It's been a while since I did any robotics tinkering. Thought about fine-tuning a pass the butter bot :]

Have you seen the Aloha robot? Would be cool to see LLMs added to that, the price tag is a bit more at ~$35k...

https://mobile-aloha.github.io/

I’m actually very interested in imitation learning and am building a system to do exactly this. It can be done much cheaper now, probably for about $7k total. I’ve replicated ALOHA’s ACT results using a cheap $250 table top arm but am very interested in doing something bigger, more complex, and useful. RoBart originally started as a way to build a cheap mobile base for a robot that could be operated and trained at home. Turns out that the hoverboard based set up isn’t quite optimal so for fun, I wanted to see how far I could push GPT-4 and Claude to autonomously operate it.
Did you find it useful? Did you use any other ML at the same time

I think about the different aims of of YOLO object recognition vs LLM conversational vs RL for planning and how one might integrate them for a better overall system