“AI Robots for the physical world” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1896415649100070932
“Dropping tomorrow https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1895156107846541678
“Our first customer use case took 12 months, our second customer use case took just 30 days Helix learned high-rate logistics with a single neural network On Sunday, we successfully validated this on-site at the customer https://x.com/Figure_robot/status/1894781226676064459
“In today’s release, Figure posted an in-depth article on all the AI advances for Helix → Implicit stereo vision → Multi-scale visual representation → Learned visual proprioception → Sport mode Worth reading if you’re interested in AI & Robotics: https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1894913805848846582
“Free @MIT course: Introduction to Flow Matching and Diffusion Models ▪️ Covers all necessary topics, such as: – theory with equations – training flow and diffusion models – real-world applications in image generation, robotics and protein design ▪️ It provides: – course notes https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/1896505290310451322
“Santa Clara, California-based Dexmate introduced Vega, their first general-purpose robot, developed in under six months. Vega has an omni-directional wheeled base and an adjustable height ranging from 2’2″ to 7’2”. MSRP: $90K – accepting pre-orders. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1896819088456110506
“Each finger pad on Sanctuary AI’s Phoenix robot features a seven-cell touch sensor with micro-barometers, like those made affordable in smartphones. These sensors are sensitive to 5 millinewtons (mN) – getting close to the 3 mN sensitivity of human touch. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1896627478116057300
“A new humanoid startup has emerged from stealth. Palo Alto-based Proception is developing a dexterous humanoid, starting with a hand. Founded by a former lead sensor designer for Optimus, Proception aims to scale humanoids for industries like healthcare and manufacturing. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1897038193897431199
“A burglar breaks in, but my Unitree G1 doesn’t call 911. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1896973157556478071
“The largest company in our lifetime will be a humanoid robotics company…pod tomorrow https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1895270649830219956
“Figure has spent ~$100M since its inception less than three years ago.” / X https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1896002398491234583
“Vision-language models can control robots, but what if the prompt is too complex for the robot to follow directly? We developed a way to get robots to “think through” complex instructions, feedback, and interjections. We call it the Hierarchical Interactive Robot (Hi Robot). https://x.com/physical_int/status/1894829058883731962
“One thing you need to realize is humanoid manufacturing is NOT car manufacturing It’s consumer electronics manufacturing And Figure plans to be the top manufacturer of humanoids in 2025, stay tuned” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1894960474120482952
“Important update: Figure is launching robots into the home Our AI, Helix, is advancing faster than any of us anticipated, accelerating our timeline into the home Therefore, we’ve moved-up our home timeline by 2 years; starting Alpha testing this year https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1895175400160133543
“Podcast is now live with Amit at Figure HQ We discuss founding Figure, Vettery, Archer, and Cover And the future of AI and robotics!” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1895894737909145733
“UBTECH’s Swarm Intelligence, powered by the ‘BrainNet’ framework, enables Walker S1 humanoid robots to collaborate across multiple tasks and scenarios. At Zeekr’s car factory, these robots showcase their ability to handle collaborative tasks. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1896438096369262714
“A robot on vacation, reflecting on the deeper meaning of artificial life and its purpose of existence. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1897396246438137955
“Inspired by Project Aria and Ego-Exo4D from Meta FAIR, researchers at @GeorgiaTech developed EgoMimic, a new algorithmic framework that utilizes human data and robot data for humanoid robot development ➡️ https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1894189427792253060
“The All-In Podcast discussed Figure’s AI breakthrough this week I believe this AI breakthrough was essential to enabling a billion robots on the planet – allowing humans to communicate with them and have them carry out actions Helix, our internal AI model, powers the Figure 02 https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1895957954966474908
“Nvidia presents: Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Dexterous Manipulation on Humanoids Learning humanoid dexterous manipulation using sim-to-real RL, achieving robust generalization and high performance w/o the need for human demonstration https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1896371407774449921
“Tap, hold, and load up the most cyberpunk humanoid in 4k https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1896636213932753023
“Figure has spent ~$100M to date and we: > Built Figure 01 humanoids > Built Figure 02 humanoids > Built Helix AI to reason like humans > Shipped robots; generating revenue Don’t be afraid of hardware” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1895677022376227169
“Intelligent robots are coming! For the first time ever, humanoid robots can work on their own, doing human-like tasks” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1897373751546929198
“Would you get a Figure robot for your home while it’s in Beta? https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1895554760079770026
“Microsoft released the most powerful vision language action model this week 🔥 MAGMA-8B can operate in both physical and digital world: embodied robots, web automation and more! 🤯 https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1895497146344026184
“Nomagic secures $44M to expand AI-Powered robotic arms! 🇵🇱 Polish robotics startup Nomagic has raised $44 million in Series B funding to improve its AI-powered robotic arms and expand into North America. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) led the round, https://x.com/lukas_m_ziegler/status/1894728453628325966
“Co-founder of Foundation Robotics: “We don’t care about making your coffee; we care about building your house, building your car, defending you, securing you, and moving your boxes — very industrial use cases. And for that, we want to build powerful robots.”” / X https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1895201067065057666
“Boston Dynamics engineers discuss ‘sequencing,’ the first practical task that Atlas was trained to perform. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1897315924270817581
“Reachy 2 by French startup Pollen Robotics autonomously sorting food items using Pollen Robotics’ open-source SDK and object detection interface. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1897349309630439705
“Brett Adcock: Figure is aiming to start alpha testing in homes this year. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1895178705946968328
“AI Conference Deadlines on Hugging Face Countdowns to top CV/NLP/ML/Robotics/AI conference deadlines https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1895530733269299240
“For comparison, Hyundai reported a loss of $400M by Boston Dynamics over the past 3 years. $127M (￦187B) in the first 3 quarters of 2024 + $231M in 2023 + $43M in 2022 Boston Dynamics operates on a larger global scale than Figure, but this puts profitability into perspective. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1896298372849651796
“Brett Adcock talks about Figure parting ways with OpenAI to focus on training their own AI foundation models for humanoid robots. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1896267571474911571
“Human: “Put the Ketchup away, where you think it belongs” (Ketchup was not present in the training set) https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1897399420595134526
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“Senior Researcher at NVIDIA, Yuke Zhu, discusses the data flywheel for general-purpose humanoids and how the data pyramid will flip upside down as the flywheel spins. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1897359739232903386
“Earlier this year, AgiBot open-sourced a large-scale dataset of real-world humanoid robot tasks. Now, they’ve announced AgiBot Digital World, a large-scale simulation framework that includes an open-sourced dataset covering 180+ object categories and 12 core skills. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1896616896428126219
“A new humanoid- this time from India! Muks Robotics unveils the first prototype of SPACEO, featuring a 200kg payload capacity, 10kg arm lifting power, a 7 DOF arm, and an adjustable reach up to 8 ft. The company aims to develop AGI-powered robots to enhance human capabilities. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1897367288887861252
“New video on the website is live! https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1895547297737662599
