How WPP accelerates humanoid robot training 10x with G4 VMs

Editor’s note: Today we hear from Perry Nightingale, SVP of Creative AI at WPP about the workflow that cuts training time for humanoid robots from days to minutes — plus access to the open-source code to do it yourself.

Robots are pushing the boundaries of what content creators and directors can capture. These technologies have become critical in the film industry because they open up new possibilities for controlled camera moves in locations where traditional methods would be unsafe or infeasible. 

We’ve found that the programming for these robots is arguably as technical and complicated as the shoots they’re being tested on. To achieve our goals, we needed a hardware stack that was equally advanced as the robots we’d be programming. In this post, we explore how WPP used the new G4 VM instance powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell on Google Cloud, which is a ...