AI Supremacy
“What kind of a world will we be living in when robots and humanoid robotics go mainstream?”
Headlines in Robotics:
As AI continues to evolve and the mass production of humanoid robots begins, I suspect I’ll be covering robotics increasingly on this publication. This future AI takes many aspects and with all the emphasis on LLMs, the impact of robots might be underestimated in the mid 2020s.
- Amazon will begin to test humanoid robots in delivery.
- Meta’s new V-JEPA 2 world model uses raw video to train robots. [read paper]
- How Boston Dynamics Atlas humanoid robot now handles drops, stumbles, and unexpected failures.
- AI robots help nurses beat burnout and transform hospital care. (Nurabot, developed by Foxconn and Kawasaki Heavy Industries with Nvidia)
- The Head of Tesla’s Optimus Program Just Resigned. Farewell Milan Kovac. Bloomberg reports that Autopilot chief Ashok Elluswamy will take over responsibility for Optimus, which is at a critical stage.
- Figure AI unveils BotQ high-volume humanoid manufacturing facility (April). Figure AI said this Spring that BotQ’s first-generation production line will be capable of manufacturing up to 12,000 robots per year.
