OpenAI powers a robot that can hand people food, pick up trash, put away dishes, and more

VentureBeat March 13, 2024
Carl Franzen

Despite reports of enterprises getting cold feet around embracing generative AI due to cost and accuracy issues, it’s clear that in the world of robotics, the AI age is just starting to take off.

Today, Figure, a robotics startup valued at $2.6 billion, founded less than two years ago by former workers at Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Google DeepMind, and Archer Aviation, showed off its first collaboration with new investor and partner OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, and it is undeniably impressive.

Figure co-founder and CEO Brett Adcock took to his account on the social platform X to post a video demo of a Figure full-sized humanoid robot, the Figure 01 (pronounced “Figure One”), demonstrating its capabilities to interact with a nearby...

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