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    Figure Plans To Ship 100,000 Humanoid Robots Over Next 4 Years

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    1. Gari_305 on

      From the article

      >The CEO of one of the leading manufacturers of humanoid robots says it has signed a second commercial customer that is “one of the biggest U.S. companies.” Figure CEO Brett Adcock also said that he sees the potential to ship 100,000 humanoid robots over the next four years, and said that Figure is focused on two markets: commercial and home.

      >“Our newest customer is one of the biggest U.S. companies,” Adcock says in an [update](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brettadcock_excited-to-share-figure-has-signed-our-2nd-activity-7290836070189961217-2qq_?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) on LinkedIn. “It gives us potential to ship at high volumes which will drive cost reduction and AI data collection. Between both customers, we believe there is a path to 100,000 robots over the next four years.”

      >It’s not immediately clear if Adcock means both this new customer and [the one he announced in December](https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2024/12/16/heres-the-second-humanoid-robot-to-get-a-paying-job/), or if he’s referring to the two markets that he said Figure will focus on. (I have asked Figure for clarification.)

    2. jibblin on

      Im convinced this will become the next huge”iPhone” moment. I’d personally pay a LOT of money to own a robot that can do all my home chores for me (cleaning, laundry, cooking, mowing the grass, etc.)

    3. rebelwanker69 on

      What are the potential security risks of these things? Can they be hacked and used as a proxy assassin or be used to spy?

    4. AthleteHistorical457 on

      Okay cool, who is going to make sure these robots are safe and secure? Certainly not the current administration.

      No thanks

    6. DirkTheSandman on

      I can’t imagine these will be less than 15000. Maybe 100000 people can afford that, but i guess we gotta see how they actually work out in vivo. If they’re anything like most robot vaccuums, they’ll work twice than suicide down the stairs or get perpetually lost

    7. farticustheelder on

      Not to trickle down (Piss on) on humanoid robots but they are essential marionettes puppeteered by AI. That said, consider these two not completely unrelated items: Tesla claims in government filings that FSD is still Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance Software, the same Level it was almost a decade ago; Deep Seek as a competent Open Source general purpose A.I. system to compete with Open AI ChatGPT thingies.

      What DeepSeek does is put a very low ceiling that commercial AI products can charge. A ceiling so low that it will make a profitable payback on the nearly $1 Trillion “invested in” it’s development impossible.

      So? So, making humanoid robots is in the bag! Making the software to run the bots should show up about 10 years after fusion is competitive source for new grid growth. Yeah.

      The point is that we can build the physical equipment to make self-driving cars and robots but we haven’t been able to build the software needed to make them work. That software capability is the holy grail of today’s AI industry. Open Source AI software eliminates the opportunities for outsized returns available to early scalable new tech companies. Realistically we should be about 2 decades away from autonomous driving and useful home robots, not the “coming soon to a neighborhood near you” generic crap.

      The ‘automation age’ is about to take a major face plant.

      As usual, very interesting times!

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    9. odin_the_wiggler on

      Can’t wait for the first guy to be ripped in half by one of these while trying to bang it.