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Replicating Success in Military Robotics with a Pre-Seed Company

👉🏽 Last week I Visited a pre-seed company that is targeting military robots’ platform. They have a good strategy “replicating” what the Chinese are doing, with western propriety IP to avoid the risk of the Chinese produced army of robots turning on the western owners as a result of an instruction from the Chines Politburo .
So, I took a look at Unitree, and this time at their humanoid robot G1.

👉🏽 From the looks of it, it’s more advanced than Boston’s, Figure and Optimus.
And then and downed on me, they all do reinforcement learning using physical simulation.

👉🏽 If you run simulation learning on similar generalized topology, i.e. n legs, m arms with y degrees of freedom, this trained ANN can be used for all similar robots and if this is “open source” like Meta’s Llama, you can have built-in atavistic movement into your robot.