![Flux[dev]: A futuristic robot, sleek smooth humanoid design is proudly taking a selfie. Smooth, glossy black faceplate with no visible facial features, high-tech, minimalist appearance. The robot's body is matte black or dark gray, with articulated joints and mechanical parts that resemble those of a human, including fingers. Behind the robot is step and repeat photo station banner with the word "Robots" created out of black and white balloons.](https://ethanbholland.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/robots3.png)
Flux[dev]: A futuristic robot, sleek smooth humanoid design is proudly taking a selfie. Smooth, glossy black faceplate with no visible facial features, high-tech, minimalist appearance. The robot’s body is matte black or dark gray, with articulated joints and mechanical parts that resemble those of a human, including fingers. Behind the robot is step and repeat photo station banner with the word “Robots” created out of black and white balloons.
“Want a robot to assist you in the kitchen **without any instructions** simply by watching you?🤖🏠 🚀 Presenting our recent paper on action anticipation from short video context for human-robot collaboration, accepted at Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
New Scientist on X: “Watch a robot peel vegetables like people do – by holding a squash, radish or pumpkin in one hand, while it is peeled by the other. https://t.co/NECplBer1c” / X – https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1820712997246939535
Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world’s first human procedure
“Excited to share a new humanoid robot platform we’ve been working on. Berkeley Humanoid is a reliable and low-cost mid-scale research platform for learning-based control. We demonstrate the robot walking on various terrains and dynamic hopping with a simple RL controller.
Berkeley Humanoid: A Research Platform for Learning-based Control
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“Meet Figure 02 – the world’s most advanced AI hardware
“Introducing Figure 02 The world’s most advanced AI hardware Exclusive pics + technical writeup👇
“Figure 01 hand vs. Figure 02 hand Extra degree of freedom in thumb. Reduced the bulk from the wrist. The finger actuators are still in the palm. Doesn’t seem like they’ve added abduction/adduction 🖖 yet. Looks sleeker and more capable overall.
Successful Test of Humanoid Robots at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg – https://www.bmwgroup-werke.com/spartanburg/en/news/2024/successful-test-of-humanoid-robots.html
Figure steps closer to humanoid robots in workplace and home with F.02
“Figure 02 coming 8/6
“Figure 02 swag
“Figure 02 coming tomorrow ~8am ET
“Five fingered hands are critical for general robotics and yet old school roboticists are afraid of the complexity Minimal progress outside of prosthetics, so we had to design our hands from the ground-up (mechanical, sensors, electrical, wiring, control) This is our 2nd gen” / X
“OpenAI-backed Figure just revealed the world’s most advanced humanoid robot: Figure 02. This wild demo shows off the humanoid working in a BMW factory, completely autonomous with self-correcting behavior. The new technical features that stand out:
1. Speech-to-speech reasoning
2. Vision Language Model (VLM):
3. 20-hour workday
4. AI vision
5. Hands:
6. 3x computational power:
GPT-5 with the body is going to be quite the spectacle!”
“Lots of news yesterday, but one cool thing was BMW’s press release: “Successful test of humanoid robots at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg”
Figure’s new humanoid robot leverages OpenAI for natural speech conversations | TechCrunch
“Figure partners 🦾 → Microsoft allocated H100 ND’s for our large model training → NVIDIA helping on training and hardware → OpenAI w/ next generation models for our humanoids We’re building robots that learn and reason like humans, join us!
Man vs. machine: DeepMind’s new robot serves up a table tennis triumph | Ars Technica
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