Leading Humanoid Robots Today and Reaching Superhuman Capabilities in the Future

Humanoid robotics entrepreneur, Herbert Ong, has a Humanoid robotics company and is working with and spoken to almost all of the humanoid robotics companies. He reviews the humanoid robots with video clips of the robots and his insights from talking the CEO and executives at those companies. He describes how they have different approaches to …

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Tesla Shows Optimus Teslabots in Factory Demo

Tesla showed new video of improved Optimus Teslabots and some are doing some useful work in factories. The hands have been improved and hands and AI are the keys to successful humanoid bots. Tesla Engineer Milan Kovac reports that Tesla has deployed a couple bots at one of the Tesla factories. SanctuaryAI and Tesla have …

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Boston Dynamics New Fully Electric Humanoid Robot

Boston Dynamics has released a video unveiling their next generation humanoid robot. It is a fully electric Atlas robot designed for real-world applications. Atlas demonstrates efforts to develop the next generation of robots with the mobility, perception, and intelligence needed to be commonplace in our lives. The electric Atlas has been developed with advanced control …

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Tesla’s Hidden Compute Power

I did a video with Brighter with Herbert, Herbert Ong. I explained why the chart from last year showing Tesla going to 100 Exaflops of compute in October 2024 is out of date. Elon Musk said that both XAI and Tesla had over 30,000 H100 chip equivalents. Nvidia H100 chips each have petaflops of compute. …

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Who wins AI? How do they Make Money? Will Voice Be the Main Interaction to AI?

Microsoft is doing very well by buying OpenAI. OpenAI is making money now. AI Models are becoming commoditized. In the long run, there seems to be a race to the bottom on pricing. Open Source AI models like Meta could be used to become the Platform. All of the development happens on your platform. If …

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Sanctuary AI Humanoid Bots Will Be Used in Magna Car Parts Factories on Path to Solving All Work

Sanctuary AI, a company on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general purpose robots, has announced a strategic partnership with global mobility technology company Magna. Sanctuary’s CTO Suzanne Gildert explained their mind and hands first approach. Sanctuary AI views humanoid robots as a means to an end, where the end is …

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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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