The rapid progress of humanoid robot development is nothing short of astounding. Less than 12 months after introducing its 6th-gen general-purpose humanoid, Canada’s Sanctuary AI has pulled back the curtains on the next iteration of Phoenix.
Sanctuary has been working on a general-purpose humanoid robot for a few years now, with much of the development focus on building and training the upper torso to perform an array of tasks so we don’t have to – including putting labels on boxes, bagging groceries, moving packages, scanning products and soldering. However, it seems that most of the “Robots Doing Stuff” series of videos are actually showing the bots being teleoperated, which is how they’re taught to perform tasks.
A couple of months later, Sanctuary introduced a bipedal version called Phoenix, together with an AI control system called Carbon designed to give the humanoid “human-like intelligence and enable it to do a wide range of work tasks.” Some 11 months later, the seventh generation is ready for its time in the spotlight.
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