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    The case for game controllers as a universal robot interface

    General Intuition CEO Pim De Witte says robot companies can use controller inputs without retraining their locomotion policies.

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    General Intuition CEO Pim De Witte argues that game controllers already offer an interface for controlling robots. He says teleoperators can focus on what needs to change and how much force to apply rather than specifying exact finger coordinates. His company uses game controllers or keyboard and mouse as inputs; he says robots’ locomotion policies already account for game controllers.

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    MTS@MTSliveGeneral Intuition CEO @PimDeWitte says the universal interface for controlling robots already exists, and it’s a game controller: "You could not currently tell me exactly how far you're sitting away from your camera. But you're an incredibly general agent. We have extremely weak physics primitives compared to physics engines." "You can teleoperate a robot just by understanding what needs to change at every given moment and how much force to apply, as opposed to knowing exactly the XYZ coordinate that you should be moving one of your fingers to." "We bring everything back into the space of a game controller or keyboard and mouse. No robotics company has to retrain their locomotion policies, because they already account for game controllers as inputs. That's how their teleoperators control their robots." "Game controllers have already built this general interface that converts human intuition into these very general outputs that, by the way, almost every robot in the world ships with." @gen_intuition1h
    Pim de Witte@PimDeWitteRT @MTSlive: General Intuition CEO @PimDeWitte says the universal interface for controlling robots already exists, and it’s a game controll…1h

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    MTS@MTSliveGeneral Intuition CEO @PimDeWitte says the universal interface for controlling robots already exists, and it’s a game controller: "You could not currently tell me exactly how far you're sitting away from your camera. But you're an incredibly general agent. We have extremely weak physics primitives compared to physics engines." "You can teleoperate a robot just by understanding what needs to change at every given moment and how much force to apply, as opposed to knowing exactly the XYZ coordinate that you should be moving one of your fingers to." "We bring everything back into the space of a game controller or keyboard and mouse. No robotics company has to retrain their locomotion policies, because they already account for game controllers as inputs. That's how their teleoperators control their robots." "Game controllers have already built this general interface that converts human intuition into these very general outputs that, by the way, almost every robot in the world ships with." @gen_intuition1h
    Pim de Witte@PimDeWitteRT @MTSlive: General Intuition CEO @PimDeWitte says the universal interface for controlling robots already exists, and it’s a game controll…1h