Re:Figure 01 has learned to make coffee
by amelius on Sunday January 07, 2024 @10:23AM
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Perhaps because they can reuse the robots for a thousand types of tasks so they don't have to reinvent the wheel every time? Also much cheaper that way.
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You’re conflating what I’m saying about human-styled robots, and the reality of humanoid robots.
We’ve been making bipedal, two armed, dexterous robots for a while now, to varying levels of success. They don’t tend to obsess over the slick human look though, since it makes wobbly unbalanced machines, like the one in this video.
Compare to Boston dynamics atlas [0], whose balance and dexterity is almost a bit scary. Is that run a result after many failed runs, yes. Is this video from Figure the result after many failed runs, I would also assume yes. I am much more impressed by what Atlas does though.