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Sanctuary AI, a company on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general purpose robots, has announced a strategic partnership with global mobility technology company Magna. Sanctuary’s CTO Suzanne Gildert explained their mind and hands first approach. Sanctuary AI views humanoid robots as a means to an end, where the end is ... Read more

There are about six major capabilities that Tesla still needs to add to FSD based upon capability checklists. Most of the capabilities will need refinement so that they are performed well every time. The six capabilities are recognize hand signals, drive in reverse, avoid pot holes and low road obstacles, don’t drive in the blind ... Read more

The Unitree H1 Humanoid robot can outrun a human being. In this video we review the Unitree H1 robot and other humanoid robots and briefly consider the expected impacts on our world.

There are many who believe that years of failure or limited success for Tesla FSD and other robotaxi projects are evidence for their belief that it will take more years from today for Tesla FSD to achieve robotaxi level. Chess Computer Programs Chess programs were under serious development for decades before they finally succeeded in ... Read more

Devin is an AI that was used on the SWE-bench, a challenging benchmark that asks agents to resolve real-world GitHub issues found in open source projects like Django and scikit-learn. Devin correctly resolves 13.86% of the issues end-to-end, far exceeding the previous state-of-the-art of 1.96%. Even when given the exact files to edit, the best ... Read more

Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil the robotaxi on Aug 8, 2024. Tesla Robotaxi unveil on 8/8 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 5, 2024 What does this mean? It means Elon and Tesla are super confident about FSD. It gives more credibility to the Tesla Korean engineers who work on FSD saying that Tesla would ... Read more

Apple is exploring the development of personal home robots after ditching its electric vehicle project, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.Engineers have been looking into a robot that can follow users around their homes, as well as a tabletop device that uses robotics to adjust a display screen, Bloomberg reported, citin...

Longtime Tesla FSD tester, Chuck Cook, provided a video of his first drives Tesla FSD 3.3 Supervised. He had no interventions. The one drive he had would have been good enough to have been a backseat robotaxi ride. However, Chuck is not ready to sit in the back seat with Tesla FSD as he knows ... Read more

Optimus Teslabot is ready for field trials in multiple factories according a job posting. New Job Posting: To drive the deployment of robots for trial applications … execute pilot applications of humanoid robots in various manufacturing environments … cover multiple job sites and may require frequent travel. 🚨Optimus is ready for field trials in the ... Read more

Nvidia has made a software, AI and hardware platform to make developing humanoid robots far faster and easier. They have software to help with the testing, learning and development.

China has 12½ times more robots in its workforce than expected, according to an independent think tank in Washington, an indication that Chinese workers are being replaced by robots at the fastest rate in the world.“China does not yet appear to be leading in robotic innovation, but … it is likely only a matter of ti...

Figure AI humanoid bot responds to questions about what it sees and correctly identifies an apple on plate, dishes and the person. The humanoid bot then acts to use those objects to perform a request. This showed basic reasoning capability. Figure AI was recently funded with $675 million by Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, ... Read more

How do you inspire young girls to overcome the barriers to becoming scientists, researchers, engineers, and astronauts? Australian space engineer Sarah Cannard has some experience in that. “In year 10, I went to my career counsellor at school and said: ‘I want to be an engineer and scientist working in space’. And they had a […]

Unitree is a publicly traded robot company with about $5 billion in market value. They have sped up their humanoid robot to human jogging speed of 3.3 meters per second. This is about 7.5 miles per hour. It would not tire so it would take 50 minutes to cover a 10 kilometer race with enough ... Read more

Alan Thompson is an AI expert who is closely tracking progress to AGI. His definition is: Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a machine capable of understanding the world as well as—or better than—any human, in practically every field, including the ability to interact with the world via physical embodiment. And the short version: ‘AGI is ... Read more

Humanioid Robot company, FigureAU, has received $675 million in funding from a group of investors, Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, OpenAI and Microsoft. They are not only powerful investors but strong partners for the development and rollout of humanoid robots. I, Brian Wang, described the massive investments coming into humanoid bot from all of the Big Tech ... Read more

NASA Ames have shown that a simplified manufacturing and construction process is very powerful. More capable mass produced humanoid robots will be even more transformative. The NASA construction has 1% of the mass of water for the total construction volume. Lightweight and modular construction will create structures that have over 100 times the mass and ... Read more

CernBasher is a financial advisor who had detailed financial and operational analysis of FSD, Robotaxi and humanoid robot. Cern is the co-founder and investment officer of Brilliant advice. What he shares on X and Youtube is not financial advice. Cern talks with Teslafix about the significant impact FSD technology may have on Tesla’s financial future ... Read more

Tesla has been able to generate realistic video with real world physics using AI for over a year. Dr Know It All, John Gibb, had theorized this a year ago. Elon Musk confirmed this to be the case. OpenAI Sora is much more visually impressive but FSD 12 is in many ways more amazing especially ... Read more

OpenAI Sora is a revolutionary text-to-video AI model that is a significant advance for artificial intelligence and real-world applications. It is capable of generating up to one-minute-long videos from textual prompts, maintaining exceptional visual quality. Sora utilizes a diffusion model to evolve videos from static noise into coherent visual narratives, setting a new standard in ... Read more

Apptronik has been around for 7 years. They are looking to make a $50,000 humanoid bot. There robot has hands and they have actuator development.

Intuitive Machines will launch the IM-1 mission Nova-C class lunar lander on a SpaceX Falcon 9. The Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission will be the Company’s first attempted lunar landing as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (“CLPS”) initiative, a key part of NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration efforts. The Intuitive Machines 1 (IM-1, TO2-IM) mission ... Read more

NASA Ames team created and tested prefabricated voxels standardized reconfigurable building blocks. They built a set of 256 of those blocks—extremely strong 3D structures made with a carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer called StattechNN-40CF. Each block had fastening interfaces on every side that could be used to reversibly attach them to other blocks and form a strong truss ... Read more