The Figure 01 humanoid robot is controlled completely by neural nets and learned to make coffee using a coffee machine in ten hours. The Figure 01 learned dynamic walking over the course of a year.
Figure is a California based company building general-purpose humanoids. In May, 2023, they closed $70 million in Series A funding. It was founded by Brett Adcock, will use the funding to develop its Figure 01 humanoid, build out its AI data pipeline for autonomous operations and drive towards commercialization.
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I agree completely! This year people will be amazed by robots in the same way they were wowed by Midjourney and Chat Gpt last year. Here’s a link to a stunning video by Agility Robotics asking their robot Digit to sort items using a LLM as the locomotion control driver for the robot. This was impossible just a few of months ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnkM0AecxYA
This video is of Digit walking around different environments in Berkeley. Their group is called hybrid robotics at Berkeley. They posted the LLM/code for it on Github already!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFoBfFhwo18
LLM’s are going to absolutely turbo charge the speed in which robots are deployed in the real world doing real world jobs. LLM’s are the breakthrough tech in robotics everyone has been waiting for! By the end of this year I believe we will be watching absolutely mind blowing videos of multiple humanoid robots doing incredibly complex tasks from a simple voice command prompt. The LLM’s will cause autonomous humanoid robots to arrive much faster than anyone predicted.
Wozniak test. Go into a strange house (unseen before) and figure out how it make a cup of coffee. Maybe not there yet, but getting closer.
Nice, they made it look like a cylon. We need our robots to look murderous, it’ll keep us from getting complacent. It’s the cute Disney robots that’ll take us out.