What started as a modest 8-hour challenge just transformed into an unprecedented 200-hour endurance flex. Here is how Brett Adcock’s multi-day robotics marathon finally ended (with bubbly, of course).
As it prepares to unveil its first general-purpose robot, the well-funded robotics startup brings on Damien Kieran as Head of Legal and Pally Kumar as Head of Operations.
Figure AI pitted a human intern against its Figure 03 autonomous humanoid fleet in a head-to-head package sorting trial. While humanity secured a narrow victory, the machine fleet proved its real value through unbroken persistence.
Boston Dynamics has showcased its all-electric Atlas robot carrying a 100-pound mini-fridge, highlighting a closing sim-to-real gap and a critical shift toward robust physical intelligence.
In a new interview, the Meta Chief AI Scientist and AMI Labs founder doubles down on world models, arguing that the massive data requirements of current humanoid demos prove the Vision-Language-Action (VLA) approach is a dead end.