The Sequence AI of the Week #883: Qwen is Getting Into Robotics
One of the main frontier AI models is adding embodied AI capabilities.
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TL;DR
- Qwen AI models can perceive and reason about the physical world but cannot physically interact with it.
- Alibaba's Tongyi Lab identified the gap between understanding and action as a bottleneck for embodied intelligence.
- Three new models – Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, and Qwen-RobotWorld – are being introduced to address this.
- The challenge lies in the translation layer between seeing a need and executing the required physical movements.