{"id":184065,"date":"2024-03-01T13:32:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T19:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/high-speed-humanoid-feels-like-a-step-change-in-robotics"},"modified":"2024-03-01T13:32:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T19:32:50","slug":"high-speed-humanoid-feels-like-a-step-change-in-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/high-speed-humanoid-feels-like-a-step-change-in-robotics","title":{"rendered":"High-speed humanoid feels like a step change in robotics"},"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\/aiyWeSziU1A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve seen a ton of videos of humanoid robots \u2013 but this one feels different. It\u2019s Sanctuary\u2019s Phoenix bot, with \u201cthe world\u2019s best robot hands,\u201d working totally autonomously at near-human speeds \u2013 much faster than Tesla\u2019s or Figure\u2019s robots.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian company Sanctuary AI has been accelerating its own progress toward general-purpose humanoids, using teleoperation to show Phoenix how to do things, and letting it go away and figure out more in simulation.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/robotics\/sanctuary-ai-phoenix-humanoid-robot\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Phoenix is an odd duck<\/a> in this space, in that the Sanctuary team hasn\u2019t got it up and walking yet, deciding to let others figure that bit out so its team can focus on the nitty gritty of work behaviors. Thus, it sits on a decidedly unsexy wheeled platform, but it has some of the most finely-tuned and human-like hands out of anything we\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve seen a ton of videos of humanoid robots \u2013 but this one feels different. It\u2019s Sanctuary\u2019s Phoenix bot, with \u201cthe world\u2019s best robot hands,\u201d working totally autonomously at near-human speeds \u2013 much faster than Tesla\u2019s or Figure\u2019s robots. Canadian company Sanctuary AI has been accelerating its own progress toward general-purpose humanoids, using teleoperation to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184065","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=184065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}