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Figure Robotics says their humanoid robots have rapidly advanced in ability - after just three months of on-the-job factory training. (self.futurology)

submitted 1 week ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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The recent brouhaha about Apple saying AGI is not so imminent after all, disguises a more significant reality. Even without AGI, current AI is continuing along a revolutionary path that will utterly transform society.

Figure Robotics illustrates this. Its Helix humanoid robots are getting nearer and nearer human human-level dexterity in carrying out some common factory tasks.

We won't need AGI to develop humanoid robots capable of doing most unskilled and semi-skilled work.

Are the people obsessing over AGI, missing the revolution happening on their doorstep?

Scaling Helix: a New State of the Art in Humanoid Logistics

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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

This stuff is neat, but (presently) useless.

Until humans aren't willing to work for less than the cost and maintenance of a robot, humanoid robots will remain science fiction.

In the meantime, we should see more robots much sooner doing tasks that humans are genuinely terrible at.