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Watch: Figure’s 01 humanoids now working at BMW’s car plant in US (interestingengineering.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Wanderer@lemm.ee to c/futurology

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"In January 2024, Figure signed its first commercial agreement with BMW to deploy its humanoid robot in the German carmaker’s production facility in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Now, the California-based robotics firm has released a video showcasing its 01 humanoid robot executing its first job by participating in the vehicle assembly process."

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[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

From what I understand this is the first time training of the system. It's brand new. Its going to take a while.

Some that would be analogous would be those arm robots. At the start they were very specific and I don't think very flexible at all. But when I looked at them going into a factory they are very general purpose machines. The manufacturers would come out and install them and make changes easily. They were also talking about how they would train people onsite to make some alterations, e.g. new box sizes.

Seeing as its using neural networks, they are meant to be general purpose machines right? I'm sure they must be more flexible than other types of systems.