OpenAI is reportedly partnering with humanoid robot-maker Figure to create AI-powered workplace robots. A robotic venture that has received investments from the biggest names in the tech industry, including Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, Microsoft, Intel, and the ChatGPT-maker themselves.
Together, OpenAI and Figure will create AI technology that will enable robots to "process and reason from language," as the businesses reportedly stated in a press statement. To create humanoid robots that can see, hear, and carry out physical tasks.
(Photo: BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images) An AI robot with a humanistic face, entitled Alter 3: Offloaded Agency, is pictured during a photocall to promote the forthcoming exhibition entitled "AI: More than Human" at the Barbican Centre in London on May 15, 2019.
Figure will reportedly train its AI models on robotics action data that it has gathered. These models will be built on OpenAI's most recent GPT models.
Investments for the AI-powered workplace robot have raised $675 million from investors in a funding round valued at $2.6 billion. The CEO and founder of Figure, Brett Adcock, stated that the company will use the funds to increase employment, speed up production, and create extensive language models for robotics. Additionally, Adcock stated that the business will relocate its AI infrastructure and training to Microsoft Azure.
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AI Robot Startup, Figure
Figure, founded in 2022, creates "general-purpose humanoids" who can work alongside humans and perform disagreeable or hazardous tasks. According to the corporation, there are more than 10 million hazardous or unfavorable jobs in the United States alone, and as the population ages, it will become more challenging for businesses to grow their workforce.
The German automaker's plants, including the one in Spartanburg, South Carolina, will be the home for Figure's robots as part of an agreement it inked with the German automaker in January.
AI Robot Competition
Investor interest in humanoid robots has increased again as AI-powered software expands the possibilities for robot-human interaction and collaboration. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, announced the development of the company's most recent humanoid robot, the Optimus Gen, and projected that there will be one billion humanoid robots on Earth by the 2040s.
Tesla's Optimus Gen, which was showcased recently, has sensors around its fingers. Optimus Gen 2 is 10% lighter and 30% faster than its predecessors, which helps it perform better and take on more human-like gestures.
Elon Musk and Tesla first presented the Tesla Bot, a bipedal, basic gadget that is anticipated to considerably aid people, at their AI Day demonstration in 2021. Musk and the business said that artificial intelligence will power the bot, which will carry out laborious, dangerous, and repetitive jobs.
Recently, OpenAI also financed 1X, a different company that makes humanoid robots, and their NEO robot. The NEO robot reportedly uses its two feet to walk and move like a person. It could tidy and arrange things at home. Furthermore, NEO is said to be "safe to work among people" and suitable for use in industrial environments for difficult activities such as operating machinery.
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