Comment by UltraSane
9 days ago
Why can't the compute be remote from the robot? That is a major advantage of human technology over biology.
9 days ago
Why can't the compute be remote from the robot? That is a major advantage of human technology over biology.
Mostly latency. But even if a single robot could be driven by a data centre consider the energy and hardware investment requirements to make such a creature practical.
1ms latency is more than fast enough, you probably have bigger latency than that between the cpu and the gpu.
We've got 10ms of latency between our brains and our hands along our nerve fibers and we function all right.
The Figure robots use a two level control scheme with a fast LLM at 200Hz directly controlling the robot and a slow planning LLM running at 7Hz. This planning LLM could be very far away indeed and still have less than 142.8ms of latency.
Latency would be kept low be keeping the compute nearby. One 1U or 2U server per robot would be reasonable.