Figure flew its old robots to Finland to melt them
Brett Adcock says Figure trained its F.02 humanoids to jump autonomously, shipped them to Finland, and had them leap into a 75-ton electric arc furnace. Arnold Schwarzenegger's reply: "Hasta la vista, F.02."
The big one
Figure turned retiring its old F.02 robots into a molten steel joke video
Figure posted a video called F.02 Decommission showing its old F.02 robots being retired. Brett Adcock joked that "we actually trained our robots to jump autonomously, shipped them to Finland, and had them leap into a vat of molten steel," and said the whole bit started because Arnold Schwarzenegger had ratio'd him on X. Schwarzenegger's reply was just "Hasta la vista, F.02."
we actually trained our robots to jump autonomously, shipped them to Finland, and had them leap into a vat of molten steel
Shown this week
Matic says its home robot hits 99.999% visual SLAM across 16K homes
Matic's Mehul laid out the company's nine-year bet: start with eyes, not hands, and the claim that its vision-only SLAM (mapping and locating itself) runs at 99.999% across more than 16,000 homes and 500 million square feet. He calls Matic the only unsupervised home robot at scale with pure vision-only full autonomy, and says phase two is manipulation.
If you are tired of seeing gimmicky demos and want robots to just work please see Matic.
Out in the world
Dyna rolled Taku into a live server room it had never seen
Anh-Quan Pham says Dyna Robotics put its Taku robot into one of its live server rooms over a weekend to see how fast it could pick up unseen tasks, and it adapted off just a handful of quick demonstrations.
Even wheeled robots will benefit from the RL whole body control techniques developed for humanoids