{"id":195254,"date":"2024-08-26T12:55:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T17:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/humanoid-robots-are-coming"},"modified":"2024-08-26T12:55:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T17:55:18","slug":"humanoid-robots-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/humanoid-robots-are-coming","title":{"rendered":"Humanoid robots are coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Picking up a box and placing it in a neat pile is not an impressive action in itself for a robot; understanding an enigmatic human command and correctly deciphering and explaining the decision-making process, are definitely innovations. Digit owes parts of its progress to the generative artificial intelligence revolution that also reached the field of robotics and turned expectations from it on its head. \u201cI\u2019ve been asked what\u2019s the biggest thing in 2024 besides language modeling \u2014 it\u2019s robotics. Period,\u201d Nvidia\u2019s senior AI scientist Jim Fan wrote in December. \u201cWe\u2019re about three years away from a ChatGPT moment for physical AI agents,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Ever since Fan made this statement, it seems that everyone is talking about the \u201cChatGPT moment of robotics\u201d, or the hope of a technological breakthrough that will push the field forward and finally fill our homes with intelligent humanoid robots to help us with household chores, wash the floor, set the table or do the laundry (but not fold it). \u201cWhat has been happening in recent months is dramatic,\u201d explains Amir Bousani, CEO of R-Go Robotics, which recently entered into a partnership with Nvidia to equip the robot it is developing with its spatial perception capabilities. \u201cThe physical world is more difficult than the internet,\u201d notes Dr. Oren Etzioni, founding CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, \u201cbut the field of robots that have the ability to behave in general is running much faster today.\u201d<\/p>\n

The huge interest in humanoid robots, or humanoids, which Fan is talking about, is evident in the constant announcements in the field: in February, the startup Figure raised $675 million from Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, and OpenAI for the development of the humanoid. In March, Nvidia\u2019s CEO stood on the stage of the company\u2019s developer conference alongside nine humanoids from different companies and announced that building models for robots is \u201cone of the most exciting problems to solve in artificial intelligence\u201d; in April, Elon Musk promised that he would launch the humanoid robot he is developing \u2014 Optimus \u2014 next year and predicted that by 2040 there will be a billion humanoids among us. A short time later, the activities of Mentee Robotics, Amnon Shashua\u2019s company that was founded two years ago and also develops the humanoid, went public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Picking up a box and placing it in a neat pile is not an impressive action in itself for a robot; understanding an enigmatic human command and correctly deciphering and explaining the decision-making process, are definitely innovations. Digit owes parts of its progress to the generative artificial intelligence revolution that also reached the field of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195254","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\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}