{"id":181437,"date":"2024-01-26T14:26:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/see-the-humanoid-robots-that-will-build-new-bmws"},"modified":"2024-01-26T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:26:18","slug":"see-the-humanoid-robots-that-will-build-new-bmws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/see-the-humanoid-robots-that-will-build-new-bmws","title":{"rendered":"See the humanoid robots that will build new BMWs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b37rQZ4maPo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This can free humans from taking on those tedious \u2014 and potentially dangerous \u2014 jobs, but it also means manufacturers need to build or buy a new robot every time they find a new task they want to automate.<\/p>\n<p>General purpose robots \u2014 ones that can do <em>many<\/em> tasks \u2014 would be far more useful, but developing a bot with anywhere near the versatility of a human worker has thus far proven out of reach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s new?<\/strong> Figure thinks it has cracked the code \u2014 in March 2023, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/figure-emerges-from-stealth-and-unveils-figure-01--a-humanoid-robot-to-support-supply-chain-on-a-global-scale-301759983.html\">unveiled<\/a> Figure 1, a machine it said was \u201cthe world\u2019s first commercially viable general purpose humanoid robot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This can free humans from taking on those tedious \u2014 and potentially dangerous \u2014 jobs, but it also means manufacturers need to build or buy a new robot every time they find a new task they want to automate. General purpose robots \u2014 ones that can do many tasks \u2014 would be far more useful, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}