Robotics
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Robotics is an interdisciplinary field of research and application concerned with the design, construction, operation, and use of robots. Mechanical engineering focuses on designing and building the physical structure of robots, whereas computer science focuses on algorithms for robot automation. Beyond these, many other fields contribute to robotics, including electrical engineering, control engineering, software engineering, information engineering, electronic engineering, telecommunications engineering, computer engineering, mechatronics engineering, and materials engineering.
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- Robotics - Wikipedia
- The missing puzzle piece in robotics: the world model (World Model) | GeekNews - World Model
- [Original] The missing piece in robotics: A model of the world
- Although software AI has advanced dramatically, robots in the physical world still struggle with even basic tasks such as folding laundry or unloading a dishwasher
- The physical world is full of friction, occlusion, unpredictable dynamics, and randomness, which makes it fundamentally different from text-centric AI environments
- A World Model does not program the laws of physics directly; instead it learns directly from real experience and works by predicting future states that follow from actions
- JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture) predicts abstract representations instead of pixel-level predictions to filter out noise, but suffered from representation collapse
- LeJEPA solves this problem with a mathematical regularization technique, providing a theoretical basis for robotics to shift from hand-crafted rule-based approaches to learning-based ones