Nvidia Isaac AI Robot Platform Announces Many Partners

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 …

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How Much Data to Make a Human General Intelligence NPC ?

Geordi Rose and Suzanne Gildert at Sanctuary AI are one of the world leading companies working on humanoid robotics and AGI (artificial general intelligence). They have an interesting thought experiment about how much data it would take to generate a human like general intelligence. However, this would be an NPC (non-player character) style general intelligence. …

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Sanctuary AI Humanoid Robots Can Teleoperate and Work Autonomously

Sanctuary AI is a Canadian humanoid robotics company iwth over 100 million in funding. They want to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. Sanctuary AI general-purpose robots can be operated in three modes: directly piloted by people; operated by people using pilot-assist; …

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Sanctuary AI Releases Humanoid Robot for Work

Sanctuary AI announced a major step forward for humanoid robots with the unveiling of its sixth-generation general-purpose robot named Phoenix™. Phoenix is the world’s first humanoid general-purpose robot powered by Carbon™, a pioneering and unique AI control system, designed to give Phoenix human-like intelligence and enable it to do a wide range of work to …

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2023 Overview of Humanoid Robots

Goldman Sachs Research estimates a $6 billion market (or more) in people-sized-and-shaped robots is achievable in the next 10 to 15 years. Such a market would be able to fill 4% of the projected US manufacturing labor shortage by 2030 and 2% of global elderly care demand by 2035. GS Research has an upside scenario …

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Figure.ai Humanoid Robots

Figure.ai came out of stealth mode to reveal that they are also making a humanoid robot. Figure.ai joins Tesla and the Teslabot, SanctuaryAI humanoid robot tested on over 100 tasks in retail stores, Engineering Arts Ameca robot, Xiaomi’s CyberOne, Agility Robotics Digit and others. The first figure robot will be fully electric, 1.6 meters tall, …

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Geordie Rose – AI Humanoid Robot is the Biggest Business in the World

Geordi Rose is the CEO of Sanctuary AI, which has about $100 million in funding. They have deployed humanoid robots into actual commercial retail stores under a test program. During a week-long pilot test, the store, owned by retail chain Canada Tire Corporation (CTC), saw its mechanical intern handle 110 different retail-related activities in the …

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