ChatGPT-Powered "AGI Robot" STUNS The Entire Industry

Summary

The video discusses the latest advancements in humanoid robotics, highlighting Figure, a company creating AI-powered robots that recently raised $675 million from major tech firms. It shows footage of a Figure robot making coffee and fixing errors during the process. Other clips demonstrate affordable open-source robot options costing just $200-$600, using imitation learning and reinforcement learning to train robots. Additional emerging technologies covered include remote-controlled mining robots, unique rolling cage drones combining ground and aerial capabilities, and Amazon's fleet of warehouse robots designed to operate alongside people.

Takeaways

• 😲A humanoid robot named Figure raised $675M from top tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, Intel and OpenAI
• 😎Figure's robot can make coffee - it picks up a capsule, puts it in the machine and presses start
• 👍The video shows the Figure robot self-correcting after failing to properly insert a coffee pod
• 💸Robots don't need to be expensive - a $200 robot arm was trained to pick objects using a camera and AI
• 😀Bipedal robots are learning agile skills like playing football using deep reinforcement learning
• 🤖A teleoperated robot setup that costs ~$600 can be trained to perform tasks by recording videos
• 🚘Tesla's Optimus robot is looking more natural and able to walk around smoothly
• 🕹Video game controllers can enable remote control of robots to perform physical tasks
• 🤩A spherical drone robot can roll around then take off and fly
• 📦Amazon is testing digit robots in warehouses designed for humans without rebuilding

Outlines

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😊 Funding and development of humanoid robots by Figure and other companies

The paragraph discusses the recent $675 million funding round raised by Figure, a company developing humanoid robots powered by AI. Major investors include Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI. The funding will support Figure's efforts to build advanced humanoid robots. A video shows one of Figure's robots making coffee, demonstrating its capabilities, though the task is relatively simple. The paragraph highlights the impressive self-correcting AI that enables the robot to improve its coffee-making abilities.

05:00

😁 Advances in robotic technology through AI and deep learning

This paragraph showcases several examples of robots learning new skills through reinforcement learning and other AI techniques. This includes a bipedal robot learning to play soccer, a $200 robot arm learning to pick up objects, and Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot improving its walking ability. Additional examples demonstrate how robots can be controlled remotely by humans through video game interfaces and drones inside protective cages. The paragraph emphasizes how AI is enabling rapid advances in robotic capabilities without requiring extensive specialized hardware.

Highlights

Figure raised $675M from Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia for humanoid robots

Robots taking simple actions like making coffee, but using AI for self-correction

$200 robot arm trained using imitation learning to pick objects

Inexpensive robotics becoming reality using open source hardware/software

Robots learning complex skills like football using deep reinforcement learning

Tesla's Optimus robot looking more natural, could compete in robotics

Humans can remotely control robots using video game interfaces

Creative robot designs like drones inside metal balls

Amazon deploying humanoid warehouse robots designed for human environments

2024 predicted as the year of robot takeover based on increasing examples

AI and reinforcement learning key to robot capabilities without extra hardware

Open source software enabling affordable consumer robotics

Tesla's humanoid Optimus robot rapidly improving, could compete

Remote robot control through video games can solve labor shortages

Innovative robot designs like flying drones within metal balls

Transcripts

so what you just saw there is a humanoid

robot from a company called figure. and

they just raised a ton of money from top

companies throughout Silicon Valley

Amazon Microsoft open AI Nvidia all of

these huge Tech compan companies are

putting money into figure let me talk

about why so first here's the Inc

article Bezos Nvidia joins $675 million

funding round for startup making

humanoid AI powered robots now figure

raised from Microsoft Amazon Nvidia who

added nearly $300 million and open aai

and Intel both committed money as well

now I've been talking a lot about robots

lately I've shown off the 1 X Robot in a

previous video but now we have another

humanoid robot and remember one of my 10

predictions for 2024 is that robots are

going to take

over hey figure one can you make me a

cup of

coffee

thanks

now let me break down this video a

little bit a lot of people are

criticizing it because they basically

take the easiest to make coffee machine

put it right in front of the robot put

the cup in the position to actually get

the coffee and there the robot is

actually picking up the capsule putting

it in the coffee maker pushing it down

and then pushing start I still think

this is super impressive and not only

that the robot itself looks really

futuristic I love it but yes of all the

demos that we've seen of robots this is

one of the more simple ones but they are

using Ai and it is self-correcting AI

which let's take a look at that so here

in these videos what we're seeing is the

robot places one of the pods in the

curig doesn't get it right and then

fixes it itself so that part is pretty

darn impressive so they must be doing

something right to get so much funding

from such top tier investors but that

robot looks very expensive it's not

actually out yet and when it does launch

it probably is going to come with a

hefty price tag but robots don't need to

come with a hefty price tag if you

remember the Aloha robot that entire

thing was built for basically I think it

was around

$30,000 and it used completely

open-source hardware and software if you

read the GitHub page you can buy all of

the hardware they provide you with all

of the software and you can put that

whole thing together but it can get even

cheaper here is Alexander kooch And he

says early results from my AI training

runs I've trained my $200 robot arm on a

simple picking task using imitation

learning it has learned to control the

robot arm using only camera imag and

Joint States now when you combine this

with the work that Dr jiman and Nvidia

are doing with their robotics

Innovations the potential for really

inexpensive robotics in everybody's

household we can see can become reality

sooner rather than later let's take a

look at this

video

and extending on this we have another

example of a robot in an office setting

and this looks very familiar to the

Aloha robot except this is called

Universal manipulation interface in the

wild robot teaching without in the wild

robots what that basically means is

anybody can teach the robot how to do

something by simply taking a video of it

and using that as training data very

similar to the work Dr Jim fan is doing

with mimic genen let's take a look at

this

video so check this out this is a

bipedal robot learning agile football

skills with deep reinforcement learning

now that's the key principle here all of

the robot advancements that we're seeing

how they are becoming so good yet not

needing a ton of extra Hardware is

because of reinforcement learning let's

watch this

video

now back to Alexander kooch he posted

another video just a week ago and he

said added more arms the entire setup is

now about $600 so he is able to actually

teach this robot using teleoperation and

again look this looks like a Raspberry

Pi all of this looks to be very open-

Source

Hardware

but don't count Tesla out of the game

yet Optimus is looking incredible Elon

Musk just posted this a week ago look at

this robot walking around the

lab it is looking more natural every

week let's say you don't want to use AI

you have a more complex task that humans

can do pretty easily well check this out

now we can have remote control of a

robot using video games and here it says

this is how you solve the mining labor

crisis millions of gen zers playing

video games all day can finally put that

into good use give them a joystick and

$100,000 base salary can move Rock from

the comfort of their home technology is

amazing

so very very cool not putting any humans

at risk and another incredible robot in

a form factor that I have never seen

before let's take a look at this video

it is basically a drone inside of a

metal ball cage type thing and it's

actually able to roll the ball and then

well let's take a

look absolutely incredible so the ball

is rolling on the ground rolling up the

rocks and then all of a sudden it takes

off it's so cool and last of course

Amazon the biggest Warehouse owner in

the world has been deploying humanoid

robots in their warehouses let's take a

look at what those look like Amazon has

already started testing digit in its

Seattle robotics research and

development facility potentially adding

to the company's Fleet of more than

750,000 robots the fact that it can

enter places that were designed for

humans um and solve those challenges

that exist without having to rebuild uh

the environment for Automation and

doesn't quit and it doesn't quit so 2024

is the year of robots I am more

confident in my prediction than ever I'm

going to keep collecting all of these

amazing examples of robots so I can show

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