{"id":185077,"date":"2024-03-14T12:22:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T17:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/humanoid-robot-can-do-chores-and-hold-conversations"},"modified":"2024-03-14T12:22:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T17:22:43","slug":"humanoid-robot-can-do-chores-and-hold-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/humanoid-robot-can-do-chores-and-hold-conversations","title":{"rendered":"Humanoid robot can do chores and hold conversations"},"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\/Sq1QZB5baNw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>AI startup company Figure, which emerged from stealth last year, has unveiled the latest upgrades to its Figure 1 humanoid robot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2022 and publicly announced in March 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.figure.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\">Figure<\/a> is a California-based company with 80 employees that is building autonomous, general\u2011purpose humanoid robots. Its aim is to address labour shortages, fill jobs that are undesirable or unsafe for humans, and support a supply chain on a global scale.<\/p>\n<p>The company is backed by a number of tech leaders including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, chipmaker NVIDIA, and Microsoft, and it recently announced a deal with ChatGPT\u2011maker OpenAI. Figure\u2019s latest round of funding \u2013 which closed at $675 million \u2013 brought its total valuation to an impressive $2.6 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI startup company Figure, which emerged from stealth last year, has unveiled the latest upgrades to its Figure 1 humanoid robot. Founded in 2022 and publicly announced in March 2023, Figure is a California-based company with 80 employees that is building autonomous, general\u2011purpose humanoid robots. Its aim is to address labour shortages, fill jobs that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":688,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185077","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\/185077","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\/688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}