FigureAI Gets $675 Million from Nvidia, Bezos, OpenAI and Microsoft

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 …

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Sanctuary AI Hand First and Alphabet of Actions to Achieve All Tasks and All Jobs

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 …

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General Intelligence Embodied in a Humanoid Robot

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 …

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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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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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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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Experts Predict Artificial General Intelligence July 2025 to 2031

Dr. Alan Thompson has an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) percentage tracker. Thompson’s tracker indicates that we have 56% of the capabilities for AGI now. He has fit his percentage tracker to an exponential curve and this indicates we will reach AGI July 2025. Alan Thompson Definitions for AGI and ASI AGI = artificial general intelligence …

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Chamath Foresees AI Abundant World With 500 Million AI Powered Companies

Chamath foresees an AI World end-state with 1 to 500 million companies that are one to two person teams that can build stuff. He sees this as a logical end-state. This will be a hyperproductive world. This would be a large language model and humanoid robot abundant world. A lot of financial engineering goes away …

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China Ministry Pushes for Humanoid Robot Mass Production by 2025 and $100+ Billion Market by 2030

China’s government is calling for the Rapid Development of Humanoid Robots. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a nine page guideline yesterday: ⦿ Establish a humanoid robot innovation system, make breakthroughs in key technologies and ensure supply of core components, by 2025 ⦿ Humanoid robots should become an important new engine of economic …

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