OpenAI Will Join the Trillion Dollar Game of Humanoid Robots

In an interview with Bill Gates, Sam Altman says he is super-excited for AI applied to robotics. Sam Altman – “We have to go do this thing. This is now an unstoppable technological course. The value is too great.” Tens of billions of dollars are going into the effort to dominate technology and transform the …

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Nvidia Isaac AI Robot Platform Announces Many Partners

NVIDIA Vice President of Robotics and Edge Computing Deepu Talla detailed how NVIDIA and its partners are bringing generative AI and robotics together. They have a growing roster of partners — including Boston Dynamics, Collaborative Robotics, Covariant, Sanctuary AI, Unitree Robotics and others — embracing GPU-accelerated large language models to bring unprecedented levels of intelligence …

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OpenAI GPT 4.5 In Days Will Go Beyond Human Experts and More AI Predictions for 2024

2024 and every year going forward will have more and better AI. This intelligence explosion is attracting funding and resources exponentially and it revenue will go exponential. AI expert, Dr Alan Thompson, expects OpenAI to release GPT 4.5 in days and it will exceed human experts in most intelligence tests. A survey of thousands of …

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2024 is the Year of Humanoid Robots, Teslabot, AGI and Real World AI

There were announcements every week in 2023 on Large Language Models. It appears that there will be similar pace of announcements with humanoid robots in 2024. The leaders are Teslabot, Sanctuary AI and Figure. However, there are dozens of other companies. Nextbigfuture has written just days ago that Elon Musk will likely speed up the …

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Open Source Software and $7000 Robot Is Learning Household Tasks

University of Stanford researchers Zipeng Fu and his open source Mobile ALOHA’s hardware is very capable. Mobile ALOHA is teleoperated for now. It is low-cost open-source hardware and teleoperation system. They mount ALOHA to a mobile base designed for warehouses: Tracer AGV It can carry 100kg, move up to 1.6m/s, while costing only $7000. They …

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Figure 01 Humanoid Bot Has Learned to Make Coffee

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. …

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Billions for Everyone From Self-Replicating Factories

Humanity needs to simplify the technology and products for our civilization but make them fully scalable and self-replicating. The technologies that we pick to scale need to be ones that we can increase to a thousand times our current levels with manageable pollution and side-effects at those scales. We will soon have billions or trillions …

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