Figure says its new humanoid robot can chat and learn from its mistakes

“Humanoid robots are no longer a rare sight (at least in company promotional videos), but Figure is one of the most well-funded companies aimed at introducing bipedal machines into factories. Earlier this year, the company announced a partnership with BMW to bring their robots to the automaker’s Spartanburg, South Carolina, manufacturing facility. On August 6, Figure debuted the first look at the Figure 02, their newly upgraded iteration promising artificial intelligence speech communication capabilities through a separate collaboration with OpenAI. Figure claims the 02 can also self-correct and learn from its mistakes.

Other improvements include a 2.25 KWh battery providing 50 percent boost in runtime, giving it a roughly 7.5 hour lifespan between recharges, fully concealed wiring, and three times the computation and AI inference power as its previous generation. According to Figure, this “enables real-world AI tasks to be performed fully autonomously.”

Learn from mistakes? If these things figure out how to make sperm, it could be game set match for us bros.