Figure AI, a robotics innovator, and BMW, the German automobile giant, have revealed remarkable advancements in the Figure 02 humanoid robot’s capabilities.
Operating on a production line, the Figure 02 robot has made a significant leap, achieving a 400% increase in speed and a sevenfold improvement in success rate.
I don’t understand the desire to make humanoid robots. If a human shape is more efficient because of the workflow or physical restrictions, why not just rearrange the production line and use regular robot arms?
Humans made things for humans.
Rearranging everything is better but more expensive. Sometimes it absolutely will be and has been done. There will be cases where humanoid robot is cheaper and easier. That’s not even bringing up new uses like waiter or carer, but those will be much later generations.
It’s so that our replacements can work alongside us just long enough for us to trust them. It’ll make us less resistant when they drag us to the bio-repurposing vats.
mmm unexplained vats mmmm
I think it’s to provide a general solution for most labor shortages and not specific solutions.
Or to prevent laborers in becoming uppity and demanding a raise.
The main use of humanoid robots is to work in environments suitable for humans (think inspecting a dam or such, climbing ladders and everything), as well as flexibility, especially when it comes to low-frequency tasks. BMW makes a lot of different models with tons of different options, their production line isn’t really a line it’s a directed graph.
I still don’t get who these videos are intended to brag to.
The unions, probably.
It’s a showpiece to make the stock go up.
Proof of concept. Speed has already increased and it will.
Lots of companies must be looking into humanoid robots and I know they have already been looking into robotic arms
What is the point of building faster, if you don’t sell enough to begin with…
Smells like wasted investment/money/resources to me…Markets and investors are not fully rational. They’ll jump on a hype because the fear of missing out.
