VentureBeat August 6, 2024
Keeping its promise from last week, OpenAI-backed Figure, the startup racing to build AI-powered robots for household and factory work, has unveiled the next generation of its humanoid – Figure 02.
Available to select enterprises at this stage, Figure 02 marks a significant upgrade over Figure 01, which first appeared earlier this year doing basic chores like moving dishes into a drying rack while conversing with its instructor. The new model, as the demo shows, has been perfected with an exoskeleton-based structure that enables it to handle heavier items more easily.
What’s even interesting here is that Figure 02 has enhanced visual reasoning capabilities that work as the brain of the robot, helping it learn a task and even self-correct...
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