I don't know if you really understand what these people just did... They built an AI that looks at a few casual real-world videos or photos and instantly turns them into a full 3D playground. You can MOVE THE CAMERA HOWEVER YOU WANT, change the lighting, move objects around, and even let physics play out like in the real world. View events from impossible angles because Atlas knows what was there. This is massive! Let's take robotics. Until now training robots meant collecting tons of expensive real-world data. Now a handful of recordings can become thousands of different simulated situations. Robots can practice the same task in new rooms, with different objects and lighting without anyone having to film it all again. For the industry it means we can train robots way faster and cheaper. Home robots, warehouse robots, whatever... they can learn new environments at scale instead of staying stuck in the lab. This is one of the first real bridges between “cool AI video models” and actual physical machines that have to work in the real world. Blog: worldlabs.ai/blog/atlas The team behind @theworldlabs: @drfeifei, @jcjohnss, @BenMildenhall and @YunzhuLiYZ. The video is from @davidpantera_. Follow for more insights into robotics and AI. —— Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: 22astronauts.com