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At Tesla’s 2023 shareholders meeting, Elon Musk showed some new video of the Optimus robot he believes will represent the vast majority of the company’s value in the future – as well as the method through which the development team is training the AI.C… Continue reading Tesla’s Optimus robot is learning to navigate, sense and pick things up
Canada’s Sanctuary AI has revealed a new humanoid robot, shooting for the “world’s first human-like intelligence in general purpose robots (GPR).” Phoenix builds on some very impressive earlier work and a neat “piloted” approach to training.Continue Re… Continue reading Sanctuary rolls out Phoenix, a Carbon-based humanoid AI labor robot
The jarring emergence of ChatGPT has made it clear: AIs are advancing at a wild and accelerating pace, and they’re beginning to transform industries based around desk jobs that typically marshall human intelligence. They’ll begin taking over portions o… Continue reading OpenAI and Figure join the race to humanoid robot workers
An uncharacteristically subdued Elon Musk presented some short video on the Optimus prototype, noting that as recently as October last year, it had to be rolled out on stage to wave like a politician.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyTags: … Continue reading Musk expects Tesla Bot to be a much bigger business than its cars
Science fiction is full of things you don’t want to think too hard about. Why do starships with transporters have brigs with forcefields? Why not just beam a prisoner into …read more Continue reading In Our Own Image: Do We Need Humanoid Robots?
Last August, Elon Musk announced that Tesla was working on a bipedal humanoid robot that could perform boring and/or dangerous tasks for humans. His company has now unveiled two prototypes, one of which can already walk on its own.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading Tesla unveils functional prototypes of its planned humanoid robot
The West Japan Rail Company has released video of its new humanoid heavy equipment robot. Mounted on the end of a crane, this gundam-style robot torso mimics the arm and head motions of a human pilot, who sees through the robot’s eyes via VR goggles.Co… Continue reading Japanese rail company rolls out VR-piloted Gundam robot worker
We first heard about the child-like iCub humanoid robot back in 2011, when it was nominated to take part in the Olympic Torch Relay. The latest and greatest version, the iCub 3, was the star of a recently-announced (and pretty impressive) telepresence … Continue reading New iCub 3 biped robot used as a long-distance avatar for its operator
UK robotics firm Engineered Arts has offered a sneak peek at its new humanoid robot ahead of a full reveal next year, and the preview is as incredible as it is unsettling. Ameca is presented as “the world’s most advanced human-shaped robot,” and a brie… Continue reading Ameca, “the future face of robotics,” is as freaky as you’d expect
At Tesla’s AI Day presentation, Elon Musk has revealed that the company is working on its own AI-driven humanoid robot. According to Musk, the Tesla Bot is designed to “navigate through a world built for humans, and eliminate dangerous, repetitive, bor… Continue reading Elon Musk announces the Tesla Bot, a humanoid, AI robot worker