Reflecting On 2024’s ‘Year Of Embodied AI’: Hype And Reality
Forbes December 23, 2024
Dr. Jeff Mahler: Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Ambi Robotics; PhD in AI and Robotics from UC Berkeley.
As the year of ChatGPT—2023—came to a close, there was a feeling in the air that something even bigger was coming in 2024. With one week until the new year, Brett Adcock of Figure AI Robotics proclaimed what many were hoping: that 2024 would be the “year of embodied AI.”
This sentiment surged as soon as the ball dropped in Times Square. In the first week of January 2024, social media exploded when Stanford researchers demonstrated robots cooking shrimp. Just a few days later, the New York Times (paywall) claimed that “AI will supercharge robots” in 2024. This was quickly followed by the...