{"id":217794,"date":"2025-07-13T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/figure-ai-founder-brett-adcock-says-there-will-soon-be-as-many-humanoid-robots-as-humans"},"modified":"2025-07-13T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:08:10","slug":"figure-ai-founder-brett-adcock-says-there-will-soon-be-as-many-humanoid-robots-as-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/figure-ai-founder-brett-adcock-says-there-will-soon-be-as-many-humanoid-robots-as-humans","title":{"rendered":"Figure AI founder Brett Adcock says there will soon be as many humanoid robots as humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/figure-ai-founder-brett-adcock-says-there-will-soon-be-as-many-humanoid-robots-as-humans2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other major players in the humanoid robot space include Tesla, which has Optimus, a 5-foot-8 humanoid robot that can dance, clean, and take out the trash. The company is working to deploy its first fleet in its factories by the year\u2019s end. Boston Dynamics has Atlas, which can run, crawl, break dance, and do cartwheels. Agility Robotics has Digit, which Amazon once tested in its warehouses, though the e-commerce giant now uses its own set of in-house, non-humanoid robots designed by Amazon Robotics.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these humanoid machines move with fluidity, exhibiting a suite of motor skills that allow them to augment the human labor force. Figure says its mission is to \u201cdevelop general-purpose humanoids that make a positive impact on humanity and create a better life for future generations,\u201d especially ones that can \u201celiminate the need for unsafe and undesirable jobs \u2014 ultimately allowing us to live happier, more purposeful lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company already has robots mingling with humans at its offices, asking employees if they want water or coffee, or simply patrolling the premises, he said. So, it\u2019s not hard to imagine a time when \u201cyou\u2019ll see as many humanoid robots as you see humans,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s literally going to feel like a sci-fi movie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other major players in the humanoid robot space include Tesla, which has Optimus, a 5-foot-8 humanoid robot that can dance, clean, and take out the trash. The company is working to deploy its first fleet in its factories by the year\u2019s end. Boston Dynamics has Atlas, which can run, crawl, break dance, and do cartwheels. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217794","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}