Figure AI Bot Demo – Understands Speech, Sees and Uses Objects

Figure AI humanoid bot responds to questions about what it sees and correctly identifies an apple on plate, dishes and the person. The humanoid bot then acts to use those objects to perform a request. This showed basic reasoning capability. Figure AI was recently funded with $675 million by Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, …

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AI Expert Says AGI Will Arrive December 2024

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 …

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Figure AI Talks With Microsoft & OpenAI About $500M Investment

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 …

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Humanoid Bot AI and Hardware Proving Real World Useful Work This Year

Humanoid bot company Figure announces blockbuster partnership with BMW following amazing demo of bot autonomy. Brett Adcock is CEO and founder of Figure, an AI Robotics company developing autonomous general purpose humanoid robots. Figure will be fully hardware ready (actuators, sensors, perception and compute on board) in the first half of 2024 to do useful …

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