🚕~ One slide in the deck of my talk about AI-controlled Humanoid Robots at Robotics Summit & Expo was triggering a particular amount of positive feedback: The dismantling of the Autonomy Levels used for autonomous cars by functionality and safety. Often referred to L1-L5, these actually describe both dimensions, but don't distinguish them - which is why, in my observations, they are often misunderstood: L2 doesn't mean that it can do less than >L3, it just means that it can't do that on its own. This is because the levels are now officially awarded according to the safety aspect, not the functional aspect. Tesla has an AI driver that can drive for you, A to B, quite reliably. Mercedes-Benz AG has driving automation that drives for you in the traffic jam (or up to 60kph/37mph). Now the other aspect is the safety certification of these. Mercedes let’s you focus on other tasks when in automatic driving, it's certified to do that reliabily. Tesla’s FSD, you have to watch at all times, because it’s not certified to be able to drive alone, even that it can functionally do much more. AI-controlled robots have the same challenge like Tesla's AI driver, when it comes to behavioral safety: With end-to-end neural control, there is no way to certify safety based on the classical methods of functional safety with full traceability from requirement to verification of the implementation. It can only be certified with statistics, which is very hard. At Synapticon, where we're leading the market with functional safety for motion control, we are working on bringing robot safety to the next level: Enabling safe, autonomous, intelligent robots that humans can rely on won't harm them, on a motion AND behavioral level. Stay tuned for POSITRON AI SAFETY updates 🦾 Let me know in the comments if you want a copy of the complete deck of my talk. I'll also present it next week on the Humanoid Summit Shanghai as well as on the Konradin Verlag RobotX Forum on 20th June - here added by explanations on how the robotic software stack is currently transformed by AI. #robotaxi #humanoids #robotics #safety #aisafety
Marcel Eberhardt
1mo
Ich bin bei Deinen Beiträgen echt immer wieder begeistert, was ihr da auf die Beine stellt!
Marcus Frei
1mo
Hi Nik, would be interested in receiving a copy.
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1moThank you for that post, that’s why I actually have to test ride a lot of cars every time I am looking for a new car. Inspired by this post, I wrote about it here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hdready_synapticon-humanoids-safety-talk-excerpt-activity-7202174449209524224-vndR