Tesla is unveiling the Robotax on August 8, 2024 there is an ongoing ramp of the FSD (full self driving) software. What do we no know and not know about this rapidly changing situation? This is all happening as Tesla’s sales growth is “between two growth waves”. Tesla has cut over 10% of its staff …
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 …
The Unitree H1 Humanoid robot can outrun a human being. In this video we review the Unitree H1 robot and other humanoid robots and briefly consider the expected impacts on our world. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is …
Optimus Teslabot is ready for field trials in multiple factories according a job posting. New Job Posting: To drive the deployment of robots for trial applications … execute pilot applications of humanoid robots in various manufacturing environments … cover multiple job sites and may require frequent travel. 🚨Optimus is ready for field trials in the …
Nvidia has made a software, AI and hardware platform to make developing humanoid robots far faster and easier. They have software to help with the testing, learning and development. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science …
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, …
Unitree is a publicly traded robot company with about $5 billion in market value. They have sped up their humanoid robot to human jogging speed of 3.3 meters per second. This is about 7.5 miles per hour. It would not tire so it would take 50 minutes to cover a 10 kilometer race with enough …
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 …
NASA Ames have shown that a simplified manufacturing and construction process is very powerful. More capable mass produced humanoid robots will be even more transformative. The NASA construction system has a mass of 10 kilograms per cubic meter. Water has a mass of 1000 kilograms per cubic meter. Lightweight and modular construction will create structures …
Apptronik has been around for 7 years. They are looking to make a $50,000 humanoid bot. There robot has hands and they have actuator development. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers …
NASA Ames team created and tested prefabricated voxels standardized reconfigurable building blocks. They built a set of 256 of those blocks—extremely strong 3D structures made with a carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer called StattechNN-40CF. Each block had fastening interfaces on every side that could be used to reversibly attach them to other blocks and form a strong truss …