Re:Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot
by app13 on Thursday October 09, 2025 @04:15PM
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Most companies are using world model simulations for training nowadays, like Issac Gym or Mujoco, not just video data.
Re:Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot
by smath on Friday October 10, 2025 @10:03AM
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came here to see if anyone had read Rodney's recent essay - and to ask how does this announcement by Figure square with Rodney's essay.
The essay was long so I cant claim I read it in detail - one q in my mind is whether humanoids need to do dexterity the same way that humans do. yes they dont have skin and tiny receptors but maybe there is another way to develop dexterity?
https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dex...
In short, he makes the case that unlike text and images, human dexterity is based on sensory inputs that we barely understand, that these robots don't have, and it will take a long time to get the right sensors in, get the right data recorded, and only then train them to the level of a human. He is very skeptical that they can learn from video-only data, which is what the companies are doing.