Unitree is a publicly traded robot company with about $5 billion in market value. They have sped up their humanoid robot to human jogging speed of 3.3 meters per second. This is about 7.5 miles per hour. It would not tire so it would take 50 minutes to cover a 10 kilometer race with enough …
Alan Thompson is an AI expert who is closely tracking progress to AGI. His definition is: Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a machine capable of understanding the world as well as—or better than—any human, in practically every field, including the ability to interact with the world via physical embodiment. And the short version: ‘AGI is …
UBTECH’s humanoid robot Walker S was introduced into the assembly line of electric car maker NIO’s advanced vehicle manufacturing center, as an “intern” assisting in the car production. Walker S is the first bipedal humanoid robot to complete a specific workstation’s tasks on a mobile EV production line. UBTECH humanoid robot will also be placed …
Humanioid Robot company, FigureAU, has received $675 million in funding from a group of investors, Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, OpenAI and Microsoft. They are not only powerful investors but strong partners for the development and rollout of humanoid robots. I, Brian Wang, described the massive investments coming into humanoid bot from all of the Big Tech …
Apptronik has been around for 7 years. They are looking to make a $50,000 humanoid bot. There robot has hands and they have actuator development. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers …
Sanctuary’s CTO Suzanne Gildert explains their mind and hands first approach. Sanctuary AI views humanoid robots as a means to an end, where the end is human-like general intelligence. Suzanne Gildert is Chief Technology Officer and has been a prominent figure in AI robotics leading to her being often affectionately known as the Mother of …
Machines with human-level intelligence should be able to do most economically valuable work. This aligns a major economic incentive with the scientific grand challenge of building a human-like mind. Here Sanctuary AIs CEO Geordie Rose and CTO Suzanne Gildert describe their approach to building and testing such a system. Their approach comprises a physical humanoid …
Ark Invest are long term investors and they are focused on Tesla Optimus and FSD. They believe that Tesla will continue to reduce costs. The Tesla price cuts have enabled monthly car payments to stay about the same despite interest rate increases. Interest experts are forecasting auto loan and lease rates will drop by 0.75% …
There is a discussion of humanoid robot on X. There is the observation that people are not aware of the level of robots being used in the world now. There are the industrial (large robot arms) in factories. There are the Amazon large pallet bots rolling shelves to human supply chain workers. There are few …
Figure AI, startup developing humanoid robots, is talking to Microsoft and OpenAI to raise $500 million in new funding at a valuation of over $2 billion. Figure AI just made a deal with BMW to put the humanoid robots into the car factory for pilot tests over the next 12-24 months. Figure AI has performed …
Tesla Optimus humanoid bot has been shown walking before. There is a new video from Elon Musk showing the Optimus bot walking without the white covering pieces. There is the possibility that we are being shown an end to end neural net system controlling the Optimus. All neural net is what the latest Tesla FSD …