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🎙 This week's Podcast episode features Trent Shumay! 🤖 Here you can see him with the open-source DexHand: With genius Rob Knight - the man who founded the DexHand project - Trent built and tuned a DexHand, in the video you can see Trent in his @iotdesignshop and made it a goal to document this process. To find out more about Trent, his start in the 90s gaming industry, how he got into robotics, and his collaboration with Rob, founder of The Robot Studio, listen to the new episode of: - Kinematic Conversations - Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0hT… 🔔 Follow Ilir Aliu for updates on #robotics & #ai. 🌟 Need to spotlight YOUR product or solution? Let me help! —————————————— Telegram: t.ly/IwtT9 Podcast: t.ly/MyoUO

🎙 In my fourth episode, I am talking to Trent Shumay! 🕹 As a Computer Scientist, he started in the wild gaming industry of the mid90s, working a lot on 3D Rendering. 🤖 Today he runs an independent secret workshop where he's focused on building robotic applications related to manufacturing technology. We will talk about both worlds and everything in between! Find out more about Trent and his shop: @iotdesignshop! 👂 Listen here - @KinematicConvos - THE Robotics Podcast: lnkd.in/dpzY7PmB Take care, Ilir —————————————— Telegram: t.ly/IwtT9 Podcast: t.ly/MyoUO

🎙 My 3rd Podcast Guest 🎙 : He's a robotics research scientist at @BostonDynamics AI Institute and holds a PhD in Computer Science from Brown University - @_ericrosen! 🤝 He aims to create robots that can assist and interact with people in daily life. 🤖 Eric's research focuses on developing algorithms and user-friendly interfaces for robots to learn and plan tasks, making it easier for people to teach and work with them. Interested❓ DON'T MISS - ✅ Subscribe to my Robotics Podcast: 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6CwYQI… 🎬YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…

🤖 What Happens When You Connect a Robot Hand 🖐 to ChatGPT? He is back - Trent Shumay from @iotdesignshop: Time for another DexHand demo video! This time around, he asked the question: "What would happen if you hooked up the DexHand to ChatGPT and prompted GPT-4 to use the hand as an output device?" The results were pretty cool ❗ With a basic prompt that gave the hand access to the extension of each finger, and a couple of canned animations (a wave, and a Shaka), GPT was able to use the device to do basic math problems, and to recognize how to perform some common gestures like the peace sign, and the "devil horns". 🤘 There were a few mishaps along the way (like GPT deciding to use the fingers as binary digits at one point) 🤣 🤣 but for the most part, all was resolved with a few tweaks to the prompt. The rest of the demo was built in Python, using the SpeechRecognizer module, and gTTS (Google Text to Speech) for speech output. 🚀 This was also their official launch of ROS 2 support for the hand. Trent built the code and a number of ROS 2 packages: ✅ description ✅ gesture control ✅ LLM control and ✅ USB Serial control as ROS nodes The code has been released to open source as part of this effort: dexhand.org/ You can find the full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=xYOl5oyx… And while we are at it, say hi to Rob Knight, founder of the HOPE Project - an Open Source Humanoid and have a look at his YouTube channel: youtube.com/@therobotstudio If you have interesting papers or projects, you would like to share, please DM me! 🔔 𝐹𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 @Ilir_AI & 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑦 𝑢𝑝-𝑡𝑜-𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑛 #𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 & #𝑎𝑖 📩 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 #𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑜𝑟 #𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑