We’re celebrating getting to the “fringe” of the weekend with a Heat Treat Fringe Friday installment: a video unveiling the learning progress of Figure 01. Learn more about this startling conversational machine that may become the world’s first commercially viable autonomous humanoid robot.
While not exactly heat treat, “Fringe Friday” deals with interesting developments in one of our key markets: aerospace, automotive, medical, energy, or general manufacturing.
“So, I gave you the apple because it’s the only, uh, edible item I could provide you with from the table.” A humanoid robot called Figure 01 (read “figure one”) is making a splash as a personable, multitasking robot.
If you are someone who appreciates clear speech patterns, rapid-fire conversation, and other social ques, like facial expression and hand motions, you are out of luck. But if you are looking for a patient, accommodating, young adult male, OpenAI models-trained machine to add to your workforce, this robot may be a commercially available option for you soon.
Figure 01 is intended for “general purposes,” coming beside humans in the workforce to “create and produce so much more, address drastic labor shortages, and reduce the number of workers in unsafe jobs.” One might imagine Figure 01 loading and unloading baskets with components to heat treat or perhaps take on the task of opening the furnace door and testing the atmosphere gasses that linger. Of course, if you were to ask Figure 01 to load a basket with components to heat treat, it may take him 4 seconds before answering, “Certainly.”
Watch the video below, created by Figure, a U.S.-based AI robotics company.
