{"id":184023,"date":"2024-02-29T21:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T03:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/humanoid-robot-maker-figure-partners-with-openai-and-gets-backing-from-jeff-bezos"},"modified":"2024-02-29T21:23:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T03:23:55","slug":"humanoid-robot-maker-figure-partners-with-openai-and-gets-backing-from-jeff-bezos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/humanoid-robot-maker-figure-partners-with-openai-and-gets-backing-from-jeff-bezos","title":{"rendered":"Humanoid robot-maker Figure partners with OpenAI and gets backing from Jeff Bezos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humanoid-robot-maker-figure-partners-with-openai-and-gets-backing-from-jeff-bezos2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why do I find this so alarming?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is looking to fuse its <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/ArtificialIntelligence\" id=\"_ap_link_artificial intelligence_ArtificialIntelligence_\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> systems into the bodies of humanoid robots as part of a new deal with robotics startup Figure.<\/p>\n<p>Sunnyvale, California-based Figure announced the partnership Thursday along with $675 million in venture capital funding from a group that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as well as Microsoft, chipmaker Nvidia and the startup-funding divisions of Intel and OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>Figure is less than two years old and doesn\u2019t have a commercial product but is persuading influential tech industry backers to support its vision of shipping billions of human-like robots to the world\u2019s workplaces and homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I find this so alarming? ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is looking to fuse its artificial intelligence systems into the bodies of humanoid robots as part of a new deal with robotics startup Figure. Sunnyvale, California-based Figure announced the partnership Thursday along with $675 million in venture capital funding from a group that includes Amazon founder [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184023","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}