Robotics/Embodiment

Optimus folds a shirt

Optimus folds a shirt pic.twitter.com/3F5o3jVLq1
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 15, 2024

Excited to announce that Figure has signed a commercial agreement with BMW. We will deploy our general purpose robots into automotive manufacturing environments.

Excited to announce that Figure has signed a commercial agreement with BMW 🤝

We will deploy our general purpose robots into automotive manufacturing environments.

More below: pic.twitter.com/LPisMeZZbi
— Figure (@Figure_robot) January 18, 2024

Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare

https://kevinchen.co/blog/autonomous-trucking-harder-than-rideshare

Robot Dog On Sale at Amazon

Unitree Go2 Robot Dog Quadruped Robotics for Adults Embodied AI (Go2 Air)

Our android EVE serving a hot beverage to cold commuters at Oslo Central Station this morning.

Our android EVE serving a hot beverage to cold commuters at Oslo Central Station this morning. pic.twitter.com/J5hOG8ZUiw
— 1X (@1x_tech) January 8, 2024

Robot Dog – Spot at AB InBev Belgium | Boston Dynamics

Figure announces commercial agreement with BMW Manufacturing to bring general purpose robots into automotive production

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/figure-announces-commercial-agreement-with-bmw-manufacturing-to-bring-general-purpose-robots-into-automotive-production-302036263.html

Kepler Forerunner K1

Kepler Forerunner Series General-Purpose Humanoid Robot

https://www.gotokepler.com/productDetail

The Global Project To Make A General Robotic Brain

How 34 labs are teaming up to tackle robotic learninghttps://spectrum.ieee.org/global-robotic-brain

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This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #16: Week Ending 01/19/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 16 Stories

This is an extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.