Munich, Germany, September 6, 2024 — At the Conference for Robot Learning (CoRL) Hugging Face and NVIDIA have declared a historic partnership in order to accelerate open-source robotics research by making use of Hugging Face’s LeRobot AI platform alongside NVIDIA’s robotics technology.
The collaboration seeks to enhance the development of industries ranging from healthcare to manufacturing by integrating AI-powered robotic capabilities via shared models, datasets, and simulation tools.
This project mainly focuses on Hugging Face’s LeRobot, which seeks to take its successful AI libraries into robotics. Nonetheless, NVIDIA’s Isaac Lab has a track record of photorealistic simulation that will provide for the training of robots through creating complex environments and constructing data representing thousands of real-world interactions.
This combination enables the faster development, training, and validation of robots that are AI-powered.
“The robotics community thrives when we build together,” said Animesh Garg of Georgia Tech, an assistant professor. “By employing open source structures such as LeRobot and NVIDIA Isaac Lab, we progress in AI-driven robotics research and innovations.”
As AI becomes more and more applied in most fields, both companies see the slow, and sometimes nonexistent, scaling of AI in robotic manipulation itself.
After all, creating realistic simulations in the Nvidia Isaac Labs scale synthetic environments, producing datasets in millions to represent real-world dynamics.
This method helps cut down the time needed to develop the product but at the same time, increases its precision. Hugging Face and NVIDIA intend to establish a “robot data flywheel” that would encourage the sharing and improving of data, policies and models through community deployments.
According to Remi Cadene, Principal Research Scientist at LeRobot,
“Merging Hugging Face’s open-source community with NVIDIA’s hardware and simulation capabilities could change the game for robotics AI.”
Such collaboration aims at contributing to robotics research across the globe, affecting as far as transportation and logistics while also demonstrating the importance of open-source collaboration in the development of robotics with AI capabilities.
Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/hugging-face-lerobot-open-source-robotics/
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