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Figure AI, a startup working to build humanoid robots that can perform dangerous and undesirable jobs, just got a big vote of confidence from some of the largest names in artificial intelligence.

The company said Thursday that it raised $675 million at a $2.6 billion valuation from investors including Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, Microsoft and Amazon's $1 billion Industrial Innovation Fund.

Founded in 2022, Figure AI has developed a general-purpose robot, called Figure 01, that looks and moves like a human. The company sees its robots being put to use in manufacturing, shipping and logistics, warehousing, and retail, "where labor shortages are the most severe," though its machines aren't intended for military or defense applications.
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Meanwhile, Figure is part of a crowded field of companies vying to make humanoid robots a reality. Amazon-backed Agility Robotics plans to open a factory that can produce up to 10,000 of its bipedal Digit robots per year. Tesla is also trying to build a humanoid robot, called Optimus, while robotics company Boston Dynamics has developed several models. Norwegian humanoid robot startup 1X Technologies recently raised $100 million with backing from OpenAI.

The market is nascent. Analysts at Goldman Sachs expect the humanoid robot market to reach $38 billion by 2035, and project that more than 250,000 units could be shipped in 2030.
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Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6 billion as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia join funding

Founded in 2022, Figure AI has developed a general-purpose robot, called Figure 01, that looks and moves like a human.
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Why Nvidia, Tesla, Amazon And More Are Betting Big On AI-Powered Humanoid Robots​

Jul 8, 2024 #CNBC

Humanoid robots are catching the attention, and billions of investment dollars, from big tech companies like Amazon, Google, Nvidia and Microsoft. Elon Musk is betting the future of Tesla on these machines, predicting its robot, Optimus, could propel it to a $25 trillion market cap. Powered by artificial intelligence, these bots have seen quantum leaps in what they’re capable of in just the past few years. CNBC’s Kate Rooney speaks with Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Sanctuary AI and others to explore the rise of these AI-driven humanoids, if they’re a cure-all for our global workforce problems, or if this is yet another tech bubble.


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Chapters:
2:49 Ch 1 AI has changed the game
5:52 Ch 2 Getting to work
9:40 Ch 3 The labor shortage
11:50 Ch 4 Hurdles ahead
14:01 Ch 5 China’s robot dominance
 
I hope to live another 20 years so I can witness robots outrunning the fastest humans.
 

Is the humanoid robot industry ready for its ChatGPT moment?​

  • Companies that build AI-powered humanoid robots have begun rolling out their products for use across different industries, and some believe their ChatGPT moment has arrived.
  • “If the technology works, it has the chance to transform many labor processes around the world,” said Reyk Knuhtsen, analyst at SemiAnalysis.
  • Despite the hype, many experts resist the idea that mass public adoption will occur anytime soon, with a number of hurdles standing in the way.
Humanoid robots, which have made significant technological advances this year, may be at the precipice of a ChatGPT-like spike in investment and popularity — or at least, that’s what many in the industry believe.

So-called humanoid robots are artificial intelligence-powered machines designed to resemble humans in appearance and movement, with expected use cases across the industrial and service sectors.

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How about a robot car powered by Ai?



🚨TESLA FSD V14 SCHEMATIC DROPS: FULLY END-TO-END AI, ZERO TRAINING WHEELS

Tesla just dropped a high-level schematic of its Full Self-Driving Version 14, and it’s the clearest picture yet of how Elon plans to drive the entire industry into the future.

The architecture is fully end-to-end neural net based, raw video in, car control out.

No LiDAR.

No HD maps.

No rule-based shortcuts.

Just AI chewing through video and deciding what to do, in real time.

Key blocks include:

Multi-camera video encoders

A unified "planner" neural net that replaces hand-coded logic

Controllers that directly convert AI decisions into steering, braking, and acceleration

It’s elegant. It’s radical.

And it leaves zero room for human safety nets.

While it may seem reckless to bet everything on unproven AI behavior in complex environments, Tesla fans call it genius, scalable, and the only path to true autonomy.

Love it or fear it, this is the purest vision of AI driving ever put in a production car.

And with V14: it's the AI’s wheel now, we’re just along for the ride.

Source:
@WholeMars, @Teslarati
 


🇺🇸 TRUMP & LUTNICK EYE HUMANOID ROBOTICS REVOLUTION IN 2026: “AI THAT WALKS AND WORKS”

Trump and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick are now turning their attention to the next seismic shift in tech: humanoid robotics, with a targeted push beginning in 2026.

The move is part…
 
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🇺🇸 TRUMP & LUTNICK EYE HUMANOID ROBOTICS REVOLUTION IN 2026: “AI THAT WALKS AND WORKS”

Trump and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick are now turning their attention to the next seismic shift in tech: humanoid robotics, with a targeted push beginning in 2026.

The move is part…
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I do get the " Robot ", I've been a Sci-fi fan since 13 yrs & I'm now 63, so have waited a long time to see this evolution.

That said these " Robots " suck shit given battery life. Any robot with a lead attached to it is BullShit. Until they develop a self contained Atomic Power Source for robots, they will be a luxury as the power requirements will negate most tasks ( sure rich people can waste their money on crap/robots/servants like they always have, average Joe, not so much )

How much would u pay - up front cost & ongoing - to have a robot fold ur laundry ?

A robot that has a battery life in even hrs before recharge is not viable in many instances. Yes, battery swap out, but ur electricity bill will ( already expensive ) skyrocket.

The base layer of humanity is " Energy ". U eat for energy. Everything humans do requires an energy input. The cost/viability of that energy input is the determining factor.

Energy runs the UNIVERSE !

:cool:
 
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How much would u pay - up front cost & ongoing - to have a robot fold ur laundry ?
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Pay $2000-$4000 to keep food cold...

$3000 for a stove...

Robots would know when they need to charge their batteries.

I have a Roborox vacuum that runs all over the house and goes 'home' to recharge. It knows where it didn't clean and then goes back to finish the job.
 
The dream they are selling is enticing :iagree: but reality frequently doesn't live up to the dream.

I have a Roborox vacuum but it won't make a coffee :lmao:

Self driving cars are great, until the kill u :unsure:

Like everything in life, it's great, until it's not & then ur dead ( well maybe not that extreme, but it does happen )

I prefer the simpler life ;)

It's why I stack :cool:
 
They had driverless cars running around Brickell which is downtown Miami. What a cluster of stop and go jerky travel. Looks a ways off from being perfected.

I think all vehicles would need to be automated for it to work flawlessly and that is until something glitches to
where a car drives off a drawbridge.
 
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They had driverless cars running around Brickell which is downtown Miami. What a cluster of stop and go jerky travel. Looks a ways off from being perfected.

I think all vehicles would need to be automated for it to work flawlessly and that is until something glitches a
where a car drives off a drawbridge.
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Mmm, wait & see I think :unsure: think I'll be Looong gone by the time safe/efficient/reliable/affordable driverless cars are a Reality :sleep:
 


GROK SAVES A MAN’S LIFE AFTER ER MISSES NEAR-RUPTURED APPENDIX

A 49-year-old man says Grok, the AI built by Elon’s xAI, saved his life after an ER doctor misdiagnosed a near-ruptured appendix as acid reflux and sent him home.

In agony for 24 hours, the man turned to Grok for help.

After listing his symptoms, the AI flagged a “perforated ulcer or atypical appendicitis” and told him to go back immediately and demand a CT scan.

He copied Grok’s reasoning, returned to the hospital, insisted on the scan, and doctors found an inflamed appendix on the verge of rupture.

Six hours later, it was removed, and the man woke up laughing under anesthesia, pain-free.

He later revealed he didn’t tell doctors that Grok had advised him, claiming instead that “his sister, a nurse,” had urged the test, worried they’d ignore AI input.

The post went viral, with users calling Grok’s intervention proof that AI can spot what overworked doctors miss.

Some even said they’d “welcome AI doctors if it meant better care.”

Elon has long predicted AI-powered medicine would arrive before most expect.

After this? It might already be here.

Source:
@Teslarati
 
Goldhedge said:


GROK SAVES A MAN’S LIFE AFTER ER MISSES NEAR-RUPTURED APPENDIX

A 49-year-old man says Grok, the AI built by Elon’s xAI, saved his life after an ER doctor misdiagnosed a near-ruptured appendix as acid reflux and sent him home.

In agony for 24 hours, the man turned to Grok for help.

After listing his symptoms, the AI flagged a “perforated ulcer or atypical appendicitis” and told him to go back immediately and demand a CT scan.

He copied Grok’s reasoning, returned to the hospital, insisted on the scan, and doctors found an inflamed appendix on the verge of rupture.

Six hours later, it was removed, and the man woke up laughing under anesthesia, pain-free.

He later revealed he didn’t tell doctors that Grok had advised him, claiming instead that “his sister, a nurse,” had urged the test, worried they’d ignore AI input.

The post went viral, with users calling Grok’s intervention proof that AI can spot what overworked doctors miss.

Some even said they’d “welcome AI doctors if it meant better care.”

Elon has long predicted AI-powered medicine would arrive before most expect.

After this? It might already be here.

Source:
@Teslarati
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Stories like this will lead people to more self diagnosis & potential disasters.

Yes doctors miss stuff as they are not infallible, but to pick 1 diagnosis out of 10's or 100's of thousands of diagnosis on a single day is just cherry picking.

There's many, many stories of AI " hallucinating " garbage, out right Lying & making up bullshit data/information to try & prove itself correct.

AI is not the 8th wonder of the world, it's just a very quick computer with the ability to scan huge amounts of data/internet for the most " probable " answer.

No AI has yet to develop a new concept. Humans do this every day.

Be VERY careful of what u wish for.
 

Tesla Optimus robot falls over and goes viral​

The latest public demo of Tesla’s humanoid robot was supposed to showcase a confident stride into the future of automation. Instead, a short clip of the machine pitching forward onto the showroom floor has turned Optimus into a viral spectacle and ignited a fierce argument over how autonomous the robot really is. The fall in Miami has become a stress test not just for Tesla’s hardware, but for the company’s credibility on artificial intelligence and remote operation.

In a matter of hours, the video jumped from a local crowd at a Tesla store to global feeds, where every frame of the stumble is now being dissected. I see the incident as a revealing snapshot of the gap between the industry’s humanoid robot hype and the messy, failure-prone reality of building machines that can safely navigate the human world.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...r-and-goes-viral/ar-AA1SdZUv?ocid=socialshare
 
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