Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 111.49
October 09, 2022
…for specific tasks. How long it will be before humanoids become mainstream is anyone's guess. But the number of companies building humanoids is certainly growing. Last week, Tesla showed off Optimus, its humanoid robot. In August, Xiaomi showed off its humanoid, CyberOne. Some companies are farther along than other. Boston Dynamics' Atlas can do parkour tricks and dance, while Tesla's and Xiaomi's robots were demoed just walking across a stage. It's a market worth paying attention to as developments in the space continue. The main draw of humanoids is that they could one day be commonly used in warehouses, manufacturing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 88.06
November 15, 2024
Bipedal humanoid mobile manipulation robot (MMR) provider Agility Robotics recently announced motion components provider Schaeffler Group has made a minority investment in the company. In addition to the investment, the companies have signed an agreement in which Schaeffler intends to purchase humanoid robots from Agility Robotics for use across the whole global Schaeffler manufacturing and warehouse network. “We, at Schaeffler, will integrate this technology into our operations and see the potential to deploy a significant number of humanoids in our global network of 100 plants by 2030,” said Andreas Schick, Schaeffler AG COO. “We look forward to the collaboration with…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 77.55
July 02, 2024
…focus on the latest technology and application advances for humanoid robots at its upcoming Humanoid Robot Forum. The new educational conference will be held Oct. 7 in conjunction with A3’s Autonomous Mobile Robots and Logistics Conference, sponsored by FedEx, on October 8-10, both at the Renasant Convention Center in Memphis, Tenn. A3 said its previous Autonomous Mobile Robots and Logistics Conference in 2021 attracted over 650 industry leaders. A3 also held a panel discussion on humanoid robots at Automate 2024 in Chicago. “With all of the new developments in humanoid robots, we believe the timing is right for the industry’s…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 73.99
August 22, 2021
…cessation of SoftBank's Pepper service robot line shows, most humanoids are not yet rugged, dexterous, or affordable enough to be commercially viable or useful for multiple tasks. Combining locomotion, a humanoid design, mobile manipulation, and a smooth user interface is a still a tall order. As with the concept of multipurpose household robots, the hardware of humanoids would need artificial general intelligence (AGI) to be able to generalize lessons and be flexible and capable. Today, researchers and developers expect to distribute the computing for AI between the cloud and edge devices. Humanoid robots gain agility, seek purpose Many androids are…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 63.32
March 02, 2023
…it claimed is “the world's first commercially viable general-purpose humanoid robot.” The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup said its robot will be able to think, learn, and interact with its environment. Figure is designing Figure 01 for initial deployment to address labor shortages in supply chain operations. Brett Adcock, former founder of Archer Aviation and Vettery, founded Figure AI in 2022 and said he plans to “revolutionize the field of robotics.” “Today, we're seeing unprecedented labor shortages, with tens of millions of unsafe or undesirable jobs in the U.S. alone,” he stated. “If we want continued growth, we need more productivity —…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 55.16
March 22, 2024
General purpose humanoid robot developer Figure AI recently announced that it has raised $675M in Series B funding at a $2.6B valuation. Series B investors came from Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos (through Bezos Expeditions), Parkway Venture Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, and ARK Invest. Both Microsoft and OpenAI will collaborate with Figure to develop its robots. Figure said this investment will accelerate its timeline for commercial deployment of its humanoid robot. OpenAI collaboration aims to enhancing humanoid language processing In conjunction with its Series B investment, Figure and OpenAI have entered into a collaboration agreement to develop…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 53.26
November 07, 2023
The humanoid robot market size is estimated to increase by $16.05 billion from 2022 to 2027, according to a new report form Technavio. The market is estimated to grow with a CAGR of 53.45%, according to the market study. According to the report, the increasing demand for improved visibility and flexibility in industrial operations is driving the humanoid market growth. Humanoid robots are gaining traction with the increasing adoption of cutting-edge technologies in the manufacturing process, including increasing demand for automation in several countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, India, the US, Germany, and Spain. For example, in April…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 52.22
September 30, 2022
…if there is, are we anywhere close to commercialized humanoid robots being mass-produced and widely adopted by society? On Tesla’s second AI Day event today, Elon Musk is expected to show off a prototype of the company’s Optimus robot. He first showed off the Tesla Bot humanoid in August of last year. There is a lot of speculation (and skepticism) about what Musk will show. Musk has said his company wants to start producing the robot by 2023. But Tesla is far from the only company making big bets on the technology. Many companies try their hand at humanoids Last…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 51.99
April 01, 2024
Robot Era, a Beijing-based humanoid robot startup, announced that it will open-source its reinforcement learning (RL) framework Humanoid-Gym on GitHub. The move is intended to lower the threshold of developing RL algorithms for humanoid roboticists worldwide, providing them with a practical platform to build on to avoid “reinventing the wheels.” Reinforcement learning options on Robot Era robots Robot Era, according to the company, is one of the first players in the industry to showcase a humanoid robot's locomotion ability based on end-to-end reinforcement learning. Founded in August 2023 and incubated by Tsinghua University's Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Robot Era…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 50.10
June 27, 2024
Agility Robotics, creator of the Digit bipedal humanoid mobile manipulation robot (MMR), and pure-play contract logistics provider GXO Logistics, Inc. announced today that they have signed a multi-year agreement to begin deploying Digit in GXO’s logistics operations. The companies claim their agreement is both the industry’s first formal commercial deployment of humanoid robots and first robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) deployment of humanoid robots. The agreement follows a proof-of-concept pilot in late 2023 at GXO’s warehouse for global women’s apparel retail brand SPANX outside Atlanta, Ga. “We’re building on the success of last year’s groundbreaking pilot with Agility by deploying fully operational Digit…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 46.71
October 17, 2024
…research partnership aims to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot. Partnership looks to push humanoid research further Boston Dynamics has a longstanding reputation for advances in humanoids, from extreme mobility to bimanual manipulation. The latest generation of Atlas is the result of years of hardware/software co-design aimed at building the most capable humanoid platform, both in terms of physical capability and software interfaces for authoring whole-body behaviors. This combination, according to the companies, makes it an ideal platform for advancing the science of AI-based manipulation skills. “There has never…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 45.92
August 08, 2024
Figure AI, the California-based general purpose humanoid robot developer announced the release of Figure 02, the company’s second-generation humanoid. The company received a $675M Series B round earlier in 2024, valuing the company at $2.6 billion. OpenAI neural network improvements in Figure 02 As part of the new humanoid, Figure 02 has a new addition for its artificial intelligence and neural network technology for, “speech-to-speech reasoning,” according to the company. When Figure AI announced its Series B round, including in the investors were OpenAI, Microsoft, NVIDIA and others. Along with the funding, OpenAI and Figure AI announced the companies had…
