Figure AI videos of the Helix Humanoid Robot loading washing machines in a residential setting and sorting objects from a conveyor belt for industrial settings. 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 …
Tesla 2024 Impact report indicates they believe autonomy will save lives, time and money while improving quality of life for everyone. Tesla Optimus, autonomous humanoid robot, will give people back more time to do impactful work and enjoy their lives by automating time-consuming, unsafe and repetitive tasks at work and in the home. Tesla presented …
35 Tesla cars in Austin. (triple the cars of the minimum launch). Reportedly 60 cars seen driving around in test mode before launch. Can double or more by the end of the week. 112 rides in the first hour or so. $4.20 per ride in the starting phase. It is non-trivial distances. The geofenced area …
Bob McGrew, OpenAI’s former Head of Research, led OpenAI from the GPT-3 breakthrough to today’s reasoning models. Three main pillars of AGI—Transformers are scaled pre-training, post-training and reasoning—and that the fundamentals that will shape the next decade-plus are already in place. He thinks 2025 will be defined by reasoning while pre-training hits diminishing returns. AI …
There is a $999 hip motion assistance exoskeleton. It does not majorly help increase speed and performance. It does reduce fatigue and effort so that it can make staying active easier for many people. Combining state-of-the-art robotics, ergonomics, and AI into a compact form, Hypershell X enables you to go further and explore more. Brian …
Universal’s Isle of Berk had it’s soft opening two weeks ago. The dragon robots and large animatronics are very impressive. Visitors are very impressed with the walking baby dart dragon robot. 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 …
Chinese humandoid bot leaders, UBTech and Unitree, are testing dozens of bots in factories and should reach over 1000 bots each by the end of 2025. Tesla and FigureAI will each have the capacity for 12,000 bots per year from new factories in 2025. Tesla will have 5000-6000 completed humanoid bots this year and will …
Tesla is preparing to roll out its FSD feature in China and will provide a batch of software updates to Chinese EV owners. Launching Tesla FSD (Supervised) in China would add another 3 million potential customers. At a 35% take rate of $99 per month, it would be about $1 billion in profit per year. …
Clone Robotics made the Protoclone which is a faceless, anatomically accurate, synthetic human with over 200 degrees of freedom, over 1,000 Myofibers, and over 200 sensors. This is pretty much like the synthetic androids in the movie Alien and other science fiction movies, anime and books. The cost of the Clone Alpha robot by Clone …
xAI has taken tripled the growth rate of AI data center compute. It has gone from 5X each year to over 15X each year. This next level improvement is just the start of making the ultimate business technology flywheel. Improving AI and AI data centers with AI which then makes better AI data centers which …
Tesla is now officially hiring engineers to prepare for mass production of Optimus (Tesla Bot) in their Fremont factory in California. Tesla plans to produce 5,000 to 10,000 Teslabots in 2025 and 50,000 to 100,000 in 2026 and 500,000 to 1 million in 2027. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular …