Figure AI makes humanoid robots and they have raised $1 billion where the company is valued at $39 billion. Figure’s CEO, Brad Adcock, dropped the news at a TED Talk. This $1 billion funding (Series C round) comes from heavy hitters like Nvidia, Salesforce, T-Mobile and Intel. Even Brookfield, a giant in global infrastructure, invested. …
ROBOTERA Unveils L7: Next-Generation Full-Size Bipedal Humanoid Robot has powerful mobility and dexterous manipulation. They are a Chinese humanoid robotics startup founded in August 2023 and spun out of Tsinghua University, China’s top university. They raised around CNY 500 million (approximately USD 70 million) in a Series A funding round led by CDH Investments and …
AI experts have disagreement over when we will achieve superintelligence. Elon Musk thinks it will happen in 2026 or 2027 but others think it will be 2032 or 2045. Those who think it will take longer point out the lack of continual learning. Dwarkesh Patel makes the case for the importance of continual learning. Dwarkesh …
Elon Musk spoke about many breakthroughs at a Tesla All Hands meeting yesterday. Elon said that the Tesla Dojo 2 chip will be in volume production in a few months. The Tesla Dojo 2 chip has ten times the performance of the Dojo 1. If Tesla Dojo 2 is ten times better than the Dojo …
Life Architect countdown to Artificial General Intelligence is at 92%. There are less hallucinations, AI can admit when it does not have the answer and the humanoid robots are getting very good. XAI Grok 3 is the First frontier model to consistently admit that it doesn’t know the answer to something. First AI-written paper passes …
Looking at the top 5 humanoid bot companies scaling to thousands and even millions of humanoid robots in the next 4 years. Tesla Optimius Figure AI with Figure 2 and Figure 3 Apptronik 1X Technologies Agility Robotics The tech and AI gianta behind them from the startups or from XAI, OpenAI, Google, Amazon. Tesla Optimus …
Sanctuary AI has revealed better hand sensors for their humanoid robots. It is a new generation of tactile sensor technology optimized to improve dexterous manipulation. Sanctuary is believes great robot hands are performing all of the high value tasks in the workplace when combined with AI and sensors. This requires a delicate—but durable—sense of touch …
The billionaire investors and entrepreneurs at the All in Podcast described 2025 as the year of AI and robots. I, Brian Wang, and Randy Kirk reviewed why and how AI and robots will be transforming the world. Summarizing the key points and claims and providing context. Dave Frieberg says 2025 is the year when people …
The Figure 02 humanoid bot is an improved humanoid bot. Speech-to-speech reasoning: Figure 02 can have full conversations with humans. Onboard mics + speakers + custom AI models (partnered with OpenAI) = a robot you can actually talk to. The human-scale hands are equipped with 16 degrees of freedom and human-equivalent strength which enables a …
Hundreds of billions will be spent to scale AI data centers to Millions of Exaflops by 2029. The systems will be 3000 times more powerful than the largest AI training centers today. There will be huge challenges making massive data centers that will use many gigawatts of power. Here we review which Nvidia chips will …
Brian Wang speaks with humanoid bot and AI expert Dr John Gibb about the surprises in a future where teslabots do everything in factories. RethinkX projects a 20 year disruption of the global labor market by humanoid robots. RethinkX projects there will be about one billion humanoid robots by 2045-2055. However, this skips over the …