Figure’s humanoid robot just got a major speed boost for warehouse work – Watch Helix’s neural network do 60 minutes of uninterrupted logistics work
Figure’s humanoid robot just got a major speed boost for warehouse work
Figure’s humanoid robot just got a major speed boost for warehouse work – Watch Helix’s neural network do 60 minutes of uninterrupted logistics work
Figure’s humanoid robot just got a major speed boost for warehouse work
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Figure AI has just unveiled a significant update to its humanoid robot’s capabilities, showcasing a new level of performance in logistics and warehouse environments.
The company’s latest advancements are powered by its AI system, Helix, which enables the robot to handle complex tasks like sorting packages on a conveyor belt with impressive speed and dexterity.
This isn’t just a simple software update; it’s a demonstration of how quickly the field of autonomous robotics is moving. The vision is to have these humanoids working alongside people in warehouses, tackling the dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs, and this latest development is a big step towards that reality.
“We have presented how a high quality dataset, combined with architectural refinements such as stereo multiscale vision, online calibration, and a test-time speed up can achieve faster-than-demonstrator dexterous robotic manipulation in a real-world logistics triaging scenario—all while using relatively modest amounts of data.
The results highlight the potential for scaling end-to-end visuo-motor policies to complex industrial applications where speed and precision are important.”
So this video is a much better set of info on how far along this is. It covers 3 robots in detail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6z5SA8N7Oo
My hot-take: We have a year (maybe 2 years max) before mass factory manual labor replacement worldwide. This price point is ridiculously low: $70k per bot basically is one years human worker salary without healthcare. Upkeep and programming are marginal costs compared to ongoing human labor after the 1st year (salary, a human resources dept, management, healthcare, retirement, training, hiring.etc)
That is actually really incredible. A lot of us are in trouble…
>The vision is to have these humanoids working alongside people in warehouses, tackling the dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs
Hate it when put something like that in the article, the goal is profit, dull, dirty, dangerous has very little to do with it, any job it can replace will be replaced, they won’t say it’s not dull or dirty so we won’t use it
I don’t know, humanoid platforms in a neural network doing menial jobs.
It all sounds like: CREATOR SUPERVISOR! Does this unit have a soul!?
We just need to call them Servants of the people.
Oh, wait! That is exactly what robot means isn’t it?