Spring 2024 GRASP SFI Eric Jang, 1X Technologies, “Data Engines for Humanoid Robots”

ABSTRACT
1X’s mission is to create an abundant supply of physical labor through androids that work alongside humans. I will share some of the progress 1X has been making towards general-purpose mobile manipulation. We have scaled up the number of tasks our androids can do by combining an end-to-end learning strategy with a no-code system to add new robotic capabilities. Our Android Operations team trains their own models on the data they gather themselves, producing an extremely high-quality “farm-to-table” dataset that can be used to learn extremely capable behaviors. I’ll also share an early preview of the progress we’ve been making towards a generalist “World Model” for humanoid robots.

PRESENTER
Eric leads the AI team at 1X Technologies, a vertically-integrated humanoid robot company. His research background is on end-to-end mobile manipulation and generative models. Eric recently authored a book on the future of AI and Robotics, titled “AI is Good for You”.