The race is on to capture the multi-trillion market for humanoid robots. General-purpose robots can be instantly repurposed for any task by AI. Personal robots, for instance, will cook your meals, clean your house, do your laundry, tutor your kids, drive your car, cut your grass, take care of your elderly parents, repair your plumbing, etc. Whereas an iPhone has many apps accessed from a single device, robots will free you from a single screen to invade the physical world. Tesla will likely set the standard with its Optimus model starting at $20-30,000. \u2043 Patrick Wood, Editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere\u2019s an iPhone moment happening with humanoids,<\/strong>\u201d said Brett Adcock, founder of Figure, a humanoid robotics company in California. \u201cIt\u2019s going to happen right now,\u201d added the serial entrepreneur,\u00a0his robots already working on the production line in BMW\u2019s Spartanburg factory<\/strong>. Another major corporate customer is trialing his robots for warehouse work. \u201cTo succeed at this, you have to do three things that have never been done before. And you have to get all three of them right within the next 5yrs or you\u2019re going to fail for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe first thing is you have to build hardware for humanoids that\u2019s incredibly complex and can never fail, and it\u2019s got to work at human speeds with human range of motion<\/strong>,\u201d explained Adcock. \u201cThe second thing is a neural net problem, not a control systems problem. You can\u2019t code your way out of this problem. You need to have a robot that can ingest human-like data through a neural net and it has to be able to imitate what humans do.\u00a0Humanoid robots are not like arms bolted to a factory table. None of those robots have AI.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>
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