16 October 2024

Albatross raises EUR 3M seed

Albatross develops AI software for product and content recommendations.

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Robots copy walking styles from motion examples

Disney Research and ETH Zurich demonstrated a locomotion system that takes a movement-style example and a joystick velocity command as separate inputs. A style encoder conditions an autoregressive diffusion model, which generates reference motions for a reinforcement-learning controller to follow. The team demonstrated real-time control and continuous style changes in a simulated humanoid and on a physical robot. The method learns from unstructured motion recordings without explicit style labels and can reproduce styles not seen during training.

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AI predicts how metal melts during laser welding in milliseconds

Empa and Terra Quantum developed a machine-learning model that predicts three-dimensional temperature fields and melt-pool boundaries in laser welding. After training, the Laser Processing Fourier Neural Operator produced predictions in about eight milliseconds at standard resolution and 88 milliseconds at twice that resolution, replacing physics simulations that took minutes or more than an hour. The model learns how laser power and scanning speed affect the heated metal. Its formulation follows the moving laser and averages over time, making it useful for stable welding conditions. Strongly transient effects, including pore formation and collapsing vapour cavities, remain unresolved; real-time factory control is a prospective application rather than a demonstrated deployment.

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