A Humanoid Robot for the Home

Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.

The World Robot Conference 2024, held in Beijing, China, was a remarkable event that showcased the latest advancements in robotics. The five-day conference featured over 27 different models of humanoid robots, attracting more than 169 exhibitors and showcasing over 600 innovative products. The event highlighted China’s growing ambition to lead the global robotics industry, as…

In machine learning, a world model is a computer program that can imagine how the world evolves in response to an agent’s behavior. Building on advancements in video generation and world models for autonomous vehicles, we have trained a world model that serves as a virtual simulator for our robots. Source: https://www.1x.tech/discover/1x-world-model

Tesla and others are trying to infuse robots with artificial intelligence, yet their development is dogged by technical and safety challenges. But the dream of a multipurpose domestic droid lives on. In 2013, Boston Dynamics introduced Atlas, a 6ft 2in humanoid robot capable of walking on uneven terrain, jumping, and climbing stairs, signaling a major…

As Elon Musk said during Tesla’s first-quarter earnings call, “If you’ve got a sentient humanoid robot that is able to navigate reality and do tasks at request, there is no meaningful limit to the size of the economy. Musk was sharing a vision that we believe is turbocharging the robotics industry, creating new robotics companies…

Humanoid robotics developers must pick which problems to solve, says NVIDIA To be effective and commercially viable, humanoid robots will need a full stack of technologies for everything from locomotion and perception to manipulation. Developers of artificial intelligence and humanoids are using NVIDIA tools, from the edge to the cloud. At NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference…