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Bloomberg: where are your robots 😂😂 https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1930997923539828884
Brett Adcock says the Figure 03 robot is 93% cheaper than Figure 02; the company is well-capitalized to support sufficient training and inference compute, produce hundreds of thousands of robots, and hire the best people; the current focus is to keep the team small and fast. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1931263196217909682
Brett Adcock says the latest autonomous demo of Figure 02 is fully end-to-end and uses a single neural network – camera frames in, actions out. “You cannot code your way out of this problem.” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1931039140512145724
Figure CEO Brett Adcock says his robots will share a single brain. When one learns something new, they all get smarter. Want an employee or a home assistant? You’ll pick the one that learns from everyone’s mistakes. This is how the flywheel spins. And why he believes the first https://x.com/vitrupo/status/1931001200604037145
fyi, we just posted a deep-dive write-up on the 60min logistics video Full behind-the-scenes on the AI work powering the latest Helix release https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1932192198025773371
Here’s my Bloomberg interview: → Figure’s business model → Best robot AI models today → Robots in the home and workforce Interview link in comment below https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1932071569633022445
Millions. There is a potential to shipping millions of robots doing just stuff like this A little under half of GDP is human labor And our humanoid robots are just synthetic humans who can work longer and ultimately faster / more accurate”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1931886869316538830
There’s no way to code your way out of this problem Every bag is different; Every pile of packages is different This is however perfect for neural networks”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1932280240170250319
This could be a winner-take-all industry Whoever builds the smartest & cheapest robot wins More robots = lower cost = more training data = smarter Helix No one wants the dumb robot in their home or workplace”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1931091232912212078
“Stair mode” in NEO’s RL controller engages stereo RGB vision to infer the height of the floor around it, combining this with proprioceptive history to anticipate each step’s height and plan precise, stable foot placement. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1932869701774028831
1X announces Redwood AI Redwood is a vision-language transformer model that empowers NEO to perform end-to-end mobile manipulation tasks – retrieving objects, opening doors, and navigating complex home environments. Trained on a large dataset of teleoperated and autonomous https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1932481396335128821
1X announces their latest reinforcement learning (RL) controller, which unlocks NEO’s full-body mobility for home environments, enabling Redwood AI (1X’s in-house AI model) to interact with the physical world more naturally and broadly. The unified controller supports walking https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1932864588648964459
NEOs sighted in the natural world. It’s a teaser for 1X updates dropping throughout the week. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1932115480342593867
Redwood NEO’s AI https://x.com/1x_tech/status/1932474830840082498
Something new soon. Something NEO soon. Stay tuned.”” / X https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1931849987744530923
The Information: Amazon is gearing up to test humanoid robots that walk on two legs to deliver packages. The company has set up an indoor obstacle course to test robots from a variety of companies, including Unitree. Eventually, humanoid robots could ride in Amazon’s electric https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1930525233511117224
This clip from Figure shows what’s so exciting about end to end applications. Handling a messy, unstructured feed of objects like this would be very difficult to scale with traditional methods https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/1932072973847941505
This is 🤯 Figure 02 autonomously sorting and scanning packages, including deformable ones. The speed and dexterity are amazing. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1930706769061564921
Uncut hour-long footage of Figure 02 autonomously transferring and flattening packages for a scanner down the line. The robot is using Figure’s Helix model, a generalist VLA that now incorporates upgrades in temporal memory and force feedback. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1931394946768249324
Welcome to the most boring video we’ve ever posted Here’s 60 minutes of our humanoid robot solving logistics, powered by our Helix neural network https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1931391783306678515
Agility’s Digit executes a multi-step task autonomously from a natural language command. “”Bring me the ingredients to make pasta.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1930387671626690985
‘CLONE’ – whole-body teleoperation of a humanoid. Intuitive control signals are captured by tracking the teleoperator’s head and hand poses using Apple Vision Pro. A Mixture-of-Experts policy takes the sparse input and synthesizes the corresponding whole-body humanoid pose. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1931059055533175123
RT @LangChainAI: ⚡️Discover how $11 trillion dollar asset manager @BlackRock built production-ready AI agents that power their Aladdin pla…”” / X https://x.com/hwchase17/status/1933275125077733759
Figure update coming in the next 1-2 hours…standby”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1931384282993537028
Figure’s Helix model can also perform a human–robot handover. “Helix’s single neural network policy produces the appropriate response based on what it sees. The system can be taught new context-dependent behaviors with only a handful of demonstrations.” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1931534295619023323
Humanoid flips box (fun meme spoof of Figure celebration) 😂 https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1931850724343964116
If I asked Figure team to lose commercialization time to be at an event they might quit: https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1931219135175770271
Image of the next Figure robot model https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1932821044789919766
Is this working Dan? (Figure response to heckler) https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1930693311771332853
It really feels like general robotics is within reach One robot for every human Congrats to Louis who led the project!”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1931509884484567323
New jobs are now posted at Figure, this will be a monster year for us Join us to build next-generation physical AI, humanoid robots, and all the subsystems that power them: > AI, Training Infra > AI, Large Scale Training > AI, Large Scale Model Evals > AI, Reinforcement https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1881792213514158565
This was a few months ago…Helix is now showing massive improvements in logistics – can’t wait to show you what’s new https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1930655461105426604
You there Dan? In the meantime, this is fully autonomous – powered by Helix 🧬 The AI policy learns to flip each package barcode-side down and even flattens puffy packages just like a human would”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1930854226529251565
If I could tell my younger self one thing after 20 years of building tech: move fast Speed is the ultimate advantage…the ultimate moat I used to chase perfect – every launch, every feature. But perfect slows you down. It blocks feedback, delays learning, kills momentum”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1933226344156221746
1X Robotics introduced Redwood, an AI merging language control, locomotion, and whole body manipulation The neural net enables 1X Neo to do more chores at home, including opening doors and picking up never-before-seen objects in unfamiliar locations https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1932694752534684082
Bloomberg: Milan Kovac, the head of engineering for Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot program, is leaving the company effective immediately. Ashok Elluswamy, head of Tesla’s Autopilot team, will now oversee the Optimus program. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1931085771987100089
Milan Bids Farewell to Tesla. “”Tesla will win, I guarantee you that.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1931129446377128406
Tesla Fremont showroom now has the Optimus Gen-2 bot on display – I even caught some driverless Teslas in action heading from the factory to dispatch. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1932883346721558719
“Adapt, react, readapt, apt.” — Michael Scott https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1930782043644084590
“Figure has the most advanced humanoid robot. Yes, more advanced than Tesla Optimus. Figure CEO just gave a Bloomberg sit down interview, vid excerpt here, full interview below, highlights”
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🤖 Ever dreamed of controlling a humanoid robot to perform complex, long-horizon tasks — using just a single Vision Pro? 🎉 Meet CLONE: a holistic, closed-loop, whole-body teleoperation system for long-horizon humanoid control! 🏃♂️🧍 CLONE enables rich and coordinated https://x.com/siyuanhuang95/status/1930829599031881783
A sneak peek at an update coming tomorrow from 1X. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1932532717524300146
Agility CEO Peggy Johnson says humans have five fingers, but you rarely need all five. Robots need dexterity and fine usability, but not necessarily five fingers. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1931386898549010479
French carmaker Renault Group has made a minority investment in Wandercraft, a French exoskeleton developer. The partnership aims to co-develop humanoids– starting with Calvin, designed for industrial tasks that strain human workers. Renault will also help with robot production. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1931001692142891296
As part of the partnership, we’re excited to share that @UnitreeRobotics is deploying Roboverse as the infrastructure to develop robot policies efficiently. Key highlights include: Roboverse Deployment: Unitree is deploying Roboverse, our comprehensive framework that combines a https://x.com/reborn_agi/status/1929534043709665480
GALBOT announced OpenWBT – an open-source, whole-body humanoid VR teleoperation system using Apple Vision Pro. It supports Unitree G1 and H1 robots, enabling operators to control movements like walking, squatting, bending, grasping, and lifting. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1932121215604523290
Driverless Teslas Autonomous wheeled robots Robots on legs next https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1932492655688364061
Most AI labs talk about merely “augmenting” humans at work. They say this because AI currently falls short, not out of some deep conviction. I’m not here to bullshit anyone. Mechanize’s explicit goal is to automate all work as quickly as possible. https://x.com/tamaybes/status/1932841955542904919
Pepsi partners with AGIBOT to launch a Pepsi-branded humanoid robot for promotional use. The “Fizz Bot” shared the stage with David Beckham at the launch event. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1930376252940267885
This weekend, thousands will learn, build & train AI robots simultaneously from 100 different cities worldwide in what is turning out to be the biggest robotics hackathon ever organized, thanks to @LeRobotHF. Let’s make history! https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1932079865001623747
Vision-language-action (VLA) models in robotics often suffer from latency and jerky transitions, struggling to act smoothly while thinking ahead. A new paper from Physical Intelligence introduces Real-Time Chunking (RTC) – a method that lets robots plan the next actions while https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1932158191502279021
Scaling laws drive smarter humanoid robots. Figure 02’s accuracy in the package handling task improved from 88.2% to 94.4% after the training data was scaled up by 6x. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1931398514359353393
Figure AI CEO on Building General Purpose Robots – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zObe3aOz5fw
Introducing V-JEPA 2, a new world model with state-of-the-art performance in visual understanding and prediction. V-JEPA 2 can enable zero-shot planning in robots—allowing them to plan and execute tasks in unfamiliar environments. Download V-JEPA 2 and read our research paper https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1932923002276229390
Optimus was doing the Trump dance just three weeks ago. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1930741080502505760
