Professor Zhang Zhiqian revealed a plan for a Pregnancy Robot in 2026. He has developing pregnancy robots for over 2 years after establishing a corporation in Hong Kong. I don’t believe this has been done. He cites work for premature babies and premature animals. The ethical path to an artificial womb and pregnancy robot would …
Elon Musk was in Saudi Arabia where he predicted tens of billions of humanoid bots. Saudi Arabia and Elon Musk are verbally discussing having Tesla robotaxi and humanoid bots in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia signed up for Starlink Service. There is also talk about Boring Company for Tunnels. Elon also posted that he is thinking …
What would the world GDP in the 2040s be if there were 10 billion humanoid robots? Assuming the robots were 4 times as productive as humans. There would also be 3 billion robotaxis and robotrucks making transportation 10 times cheaper and 2-3 times faster for ground transportation. There would be global 6G space communication via …
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 …
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 …
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 …
There is a discussion of humanoid robot on X. There is the observation that people are not aware of the level of robots being used in the world now. There are the industrial (large robot arms) in factories. There are the Amazon large pallet bots rolling shelves to human supply chain workers. There are few …
NVIDIA Vice President of Robotics and Edge Computing Deepu Talla detailed how NVIDIA and its partners are bringing generative AI and robotics together. They have a growing roster of partners — including Boston Dynamics, Collaborative Robotics, Covariant, Sanctuary AI, Unitree Robotics and others — embracing GPU-accelerated large language models to bring unprecedented levels of intelligence …
The CEO of Figure AI calls the all neural net learning of a coffee making task by their humanoid robot a ChatGPT moment. They are working with Fortune 50 companies. we just had an AI breakthrough in our lab robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment and that moment is happening tomorrow — Brett …
AI driven Large Behaviorial Models (LBM) is to robotics like large language models (aka ChatGPT like systems) are to text, picture, video and voice AI. The systems are scaling up to 1000 narrow tasks in 2024 from just over a hundred tasks. The key is to get autonomous, reliable and adaptable systems. The systems in …
Tsubame is Japanese startup, with CEO 25-year-old inventor Ryo Yoshida, that is making real life giant mech robots. The robots are 15-feet-tall and weigh around 3.5 tons. They will sell giant mechs for $3 million each. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. …