{"id":182668,"date":"2024-02-14T05:23:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T11:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/openai-is-reportedly-investing-in-humanoid-robots"},"modified":"2024-02-14T05:23:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T11:23:04","slug":"openai-is-reportedly-investing-in-humanoid-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/openai-is-reportedly-investing-in-humanoid-robots","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI is reportedly investing in humanoid robots"},"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\/Q5MKo7Idsok?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly in talks to invest $100 million into robotics startup Figure \u2014 suggesting that they might hope to combine their tech with its humanoid robot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The background:<\/strong> A lot of humanoid robots can look impressive in demos but turn out to be highly limited in reality.<\/p>\n<p>To have a big impact in the workforce, these machines need to be not only physically capable of doing a job \u2014 a tricky enough engineering challenge \u2014 but also smart enough to tackle a huge variety of tasks with minimal training and supervision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly in talks to invest $100 million into robotics startup Figure \u2014 suggesting that they might hope to combine their tech with its humanoid robot. The background: A lot of humanoid robots can look impressive in demos but turn out to be highly limited in reality. To have a big impact [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182668","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}