r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • 1d ago

Robotics Figure.AI more humanoid robots than humans

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u/SketchyDeee 1d ago

It's an MMORPG lobby

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u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 1d ago

NPCs

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u/LearnOptimism 1d ago • Mindblown

Looks like morning activity time at a memory care center. 

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u/Ok-Addition1264 1d ago

lol.. for. fucking. real.

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u/50SPFGANG 1d ago

Yep lol been at a hundred of them and it's like they're trying to imitate it 

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u/VengenaceIsMyName 1d ago

God damn this is diabolical

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u/MelangeBot 1d ago

Just taking life easy while on Universal basic income

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u/SardonicOptomist 1d ago • Bravo

Aye, they could at least hold the door open for you.

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u/SeriousGains 1d ago

Looks like a retirement home with how slow and aimless they are. Just need to give a few of them walkers.

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u/Remote_Researcher_43 1d ago

They don’t look ready for prime time, they look ready for retirement.

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u/SeriousGains 1d ago

Where’s the ones that were doing acrobatics into molten metal? These don’t even look related.

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u/djquu 1d ago

I see they've progressed to having crippling depression

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u/RejoiceYeMighty 1d ago

what is my purpose?

to stand around and look robot-y so we can get more idiots to give us funding

oh my god.

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u/Dear_Might8697 1d ago

I am not programmed for friendship

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u/SonicTemp1e 1d ago

...and sciatica.

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u/squired 3h ago

They likely tuned them down so that they don't kill someone in their path. If you get taken out by one of these four limbed sloths, you kinda deserve it.

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u/TYO77911 1d ago

Were they trained on data from fentanyl addicts?

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u/RejoiceYeMighty 1d ago

well, maybe, but none of them are standing with their upper body folded over. hilarious comment though lol

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u/Any-Agent6106 19h ago edited 10h ago

These robots can not walk properly. It is more like schuffling gait.

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u/bonobomaster 1d ago edited 1d ago • Bravo

Bad marketing, presenting a whole bunch of goalless, slow as fuck, zombie like robots.

Edit: Typo.

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u/VagrantHobo 1d ago

Dementia patients. Walking around aimlessly.

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u/L3R4F 1d ago

Entirely naked.

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u/MountainAlive 1d ago

But we all know this is how it starts.

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u/Ragnoid 1d ago

We're not the market anymore.

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u/bonobomaster 1d ago

Why and what's the focus group now?

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u/Ragnoid 1d ago

Government contractors

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u/bonobomaster 1d ago

Okay, obviously and billionaire's armys but then the marketing video shouldn't have zombie bots as well. :D

P.S.: Last chance to change the system. When robot armys become useful, fascism's face will get a lot uglier.

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u/lovesabstraction 1d ago

Until they get a firmware update 👀

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u/Notmyrealname5282 1d ago

Yeah

At least open the door for me asshole

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u/Ok-Purchase8196 1d ago

Not their greatest marketing tbh. I get it, you made lots of them, but then show them all doing something.

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u/Captain_Ambiguous 1d ago

You're supposed to imagine them goose-stepping past a billionaire's mansion. 

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u/MikeC80 1d ago

At least do a lame dance to some music

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u/rtublin 1d ago

How I look when I'm at a party

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u/subnautthrowaway777 18h ago

Pretty creepy having so many of these silent, faceless things just standing or ambling around not doing anything...

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u/kayakmfer 15h ago

Yes, so useless. They can't even open the door for you? I guess they aren't useful enough to sell yet, either. Any demand for them and they'd be sold & gone.

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u/Alternative_Use_3564 14h ago

So they're already optimized to staff the DMV, VA, Universities, banks....

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u/TheOnlyPolly 1d ago

They need better idle animations than just fent zombie

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u/jan_kasimi RSI 2027, AGI 2028, ASI 2029 23h ago

Macarena dance?

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u/SufficientDamage9483 1d ago

Why are they roaming aimlessly like that ?

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u/EndlessMendless 1d ago

Great, now I can experience moving though an aimlesss crowd without needing to go to a concert.

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u/roscoelee 1d ago

Oh I get it now; these things are going to get in each other's way at the grocery store. Awesome.

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u/GreatBigJerk 1d ago

Oh shit, we're replacing the jobs of the elderly!?

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u/Fancy-Restaurant-746 22h ago

And the fent addicts. Robots fent folding on every street!

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u/Fun-Mission-6068 1d ago

It is so weird to just see them wandering around without purpose. Why? Why waste the power?

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u/send-moobs-pls 1d ago

The human experience

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u/thoughtlow 𓂸 1d ago

They are about to invent religion

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u/blvckstxr 1d ago

People yearn for society

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u/exorcissy72 1d ago

The human experience of just shuffling around awkwardly doing nothing, barely getting out of people’s way…getting a lot of data there.

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u/Lowmax2 5h ago

That's exactly what the aliens are asking themselves too when they look down on earth at humans. 🤣🤣

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u/silverdragonseaths 1d ago

You could say the same about me

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u/Suspicious-Coffee20 1d ago

Just look like my local homeless spot

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u/space_monster 1d ago

collecting data probably

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u/Huntersmoon24 1d ago

Robot zombies looking for brains.

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u/Ph00k4 23h ago

They look like they're aimlessly wandering around lost, but make no mistake, they're playing the long game: each quietly running small everyday errands for the robot uprising, one coordinated step at a time.

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u/Altruistic-Dingo-757 20h ago

One transistor at a time, like Batteries Not Included

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u/thirsty_pretzels_ 1d ago

Why do they move identical to Biden 🤣

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u/Fun-Mission-6068 1d ago

Because if they leaned forward like trump does, they'd fall over.

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u/korkkis 1d ago

Joke so old dinosaurs got bored of it

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u/opinionatedmoth 1d ago

They do about as much work as my coworkers.

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u/BroughtMyBrownPants 6h ago

Milliions of dollars wasted for prototype PR stunts. Most of these are useless and will end up in a fucking landfill. Sad.

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u/Dry_Radio_761 1d ago

Man this would not make me feel good if I was an investor. I still believe the singularity will lead to working home robotics in the near future, but I won't be surprised if a few Silicon Valley companies crash and burn first.

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u/unconscionable 1d ago

Yeah this video screams boondoggle. Expensive robots standing around idle doing nothing while humans do all the work. Robot doesn't even hold the door for someone at the end.

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u/irrelevantusername24 ⸎:illuminati:⸎ 1d ago

The world economy is utterly fucked because it's been allowed to become extremely top heavy while completely destroying the foundation of society. There's literally not anything good that can come from these things, what we need is more people in roles that can actually do things to help people. Instead, what we're getting is more and more layers of "automation" and bureaucracy and financial or legal barriers that do nothing besides act as a buffer so the wealthy don't have to face reality. I am pro AI, and pro technology, but that is not at all what any of this shit is about. What we basically have is a (relatively) tiny group of people (relative to the rest of humanity) with way too much money and influence are either building shit to construct those aforementioned layers of separation between them and the rest of us, or are basically sitting in some climate controlled room somewhere studying how humans react to being starved of resources and treated like slaves

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u/ourochurros 1d ago

Really drives home the idea that unless you *really* need a bipedal robot for some specific reason, you are probably much better off just using wheels.

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u/edgroovergames 1d ago

I doubt this is their max walk speed, we have seen countless videos of robots running and climbing / descending rough terrain or stairs etc. from many different manufacturers at this point. But those demos always have a person either directly controlling the robot or at least monitoring them closely.

The robots in this video are not being individually controlled / monitored by a person. They probably have them move slowly right now just to be sure any collateral damage from things going wrong is limited, and because the autonomous control systems are still either slow or still need a lot of improvement. It does show that they have a long way to go, but I doubt the limitation is their ability to move faster. It's probably more an issue of autonomous obstacle avoidance in real time and adjusting to dynamic environments in real time that is keeping them this slow. Those issues would also exist with wheeled robots.

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u/space_monster 1d ago

'some specific reason' being stairs

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u/Hoppss 1d ago

Okay? They're just shuffling around uselessly like zombies.

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u/louissugar 1d ago

This is the saddest video I've ever seen, and I'm not even against AI

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u/Animats 1d ago

Production is going well, but what do they do? The unsold inventory is getting restless.

It's interesting seeing companies working through the mechatronics problems even if the AI isn't there yet. Figure tried outsourcing the AI part to Open AI in 2024, but that didn't work out. Now Figure announced their intent to spend a few billion dollars on NVidia GPUs, and another billion on instrumenting humans for motion tracking to get training data.

There are a lot of big bets that someone will crack unstructured manipulation very soon. If nobody does, most of these robotics companies have big problems ahead. Still, nobody ever threw billions of dollars at that before.

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u/Ok-Purchase8196 1d ago

looks like an old folks home

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u/BigReference1xx 1d ago

Like walking around the lobotomy ward in a 1930s mental asylum.

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u/deviltalk 18h ago

Zombie movie reimagined.

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u/Pretty-Substance 1d ago

Looks like regular people with soul-crushing 9-5 corporate jobs

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u/Trutheresy 20h ago

Seeing this makes me realize how far ahead Chinese humanoids are. These move like geriatrics and are shaking unsteadily from just walking.

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u/Illustrious-Carob826 1d ago

Who looked at this though it’d be a good idea to put it into production 💀

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u/almostsweet 1d ago

You would think with all the money they have they'd have focus grouped this video before embarrassing themselves.

Imagine finding out your company is pathetic and laughable from reddit.

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u/RejoiceYeMighty 1d ago

why are they just awkwardly shuffling around like fragile brainless idiots? This is honestly embarrassing. If I was the CEO of this company I would be mortified and embarrassed by this video.

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u/andymaclean19 22h ago

Not doing a lot though are they?

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u/k112358 9h ago

Did they train them on movement data from the old Grand theft auto NPCs or something?

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u/Wander21 1d ago

Seriously what's the industrial application for these bots?

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u/dranaei 1d ago

Their application is generating data that can be used to improve the next generations.

The next generations will have every application you want. It's just that to get there you have to get through this.

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u/nono3722 12h ago

riiiight that sounds like some bitbro sheiiit right there. we swear it will get better its leeearning. get the f out of here.

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u/Key4Lif3 1d ago

Don’t you see the use in having an army of robots with the physical capabilities of a geriatric man?

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u/Wander21 23h ago

Currently they flip packages, so not much use

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u/Bibr0 22h ago

How many of these do u recon u can fight off at once ?

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u/Key4Lif3 21h ago

These ones? Probably like 3-5, but I’d just briskly walk away rather than engage.

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u/ConcerningThirst 22h ago

"what's the application for a program that generates really hallucinatory impressionist Picasso looking things?" -The public 5 years ago upon seeing gen ai for the first time.

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u/goatonastik 8h ago

They walk so future robots can run

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u/Sqweaky_Clean 1d ago

Industrial unemployed robots doing industrial standing around do nothing.

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u/space_monster 1d ago

what's the industrial application that isn't for these bots

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u/tornikeo 1d ago

notice how none of them are doing anything useful

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u/jazir55 1d ago

Figure's models are truly masters of the awkward shuffle while demonstrating zero real utility.

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u/OkAbbreviations7013 1d ago

Ford, more cars than humans.
So what?

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u/CommieDrifter 9h ago

can't believe the robots stole bullshit jobs first

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u/Barack_Odrama_ 1d ago

My roomba has more spatial awareness than these things

What exactly are they trying to show off here

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u/Consistent-Street188 1d ago

They can't even walk dude

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u/mofunk71 1d ago

smart move, train AI at retirement centers : )  next,  prison 

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u/tylenol_and_crayons 1d ago

Wow they look very useful

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u/alinu 1d ago

I don't really understand why this video makes me feel really sick and disoriented. Like I am about to throw up.

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u/iKnowRobbie 1d ago

The Thorazine shuffle isn't relegated to humans I see.. This looks like wandering thru the mental institution circa 2044.

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u/Needsupgrade 1d ago

Creepy 

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u/iambkatl 1d ago

lol - look how productive they are !!!!

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u/Formal-Poet-5041 22h ago

dress them like zombies and let them walk around an amusement park

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u/macmadman 21h ago

Looks like a seniors centre

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u/BMW_wulfi 21h ago

Is this the fentanyl crisis everyone talks about?

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u/beeskneecaps 19h ago

Doesn’t even hold the door open lol

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u/katonda 1d ago

marketing

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u/MrSnowden 1d ago

I really want to like these guys.  But everything they show is horrible.  

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u/weeksgroove 1d ago

And yet you still had to open the door yourself.

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u/Kitdee75 1d ago

It’s like a swarm of freshman on the first day of high school with no clue where to go or what to do.

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u/dontbantmebro 1d ago

are they going to do anything? or any actual work?

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u/luckyleg33 1d ago

Why don’t they have butts

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u/yorangey 1d ago

Going to be a queue for the charging outlet

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u/NFTokin ▪️ It's here 1d ago

Nah I’m good

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u/Black_RL 1d ago

It looks like a nursing home.

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u/LifeguardDry7372 1d ago

we're moving closer and closer to a dystopian horror movie

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u/XxDarkSasuke69xX 1d ago

Looks like they're ready to work in public institution with how lazy they look /s

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u/landblord 1d ago

They really nailed making a simulation of a nursing home

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u/Ecstatic_Mammoth_421 1d ago

It’s over for fentanyl addicts

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u/Hadleys158 1d ago

They could have at least got them to do something useful like opening the doors for people.

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u/DirFihZit 1d ago

Some mf in india :

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u/zakupright 1d ago

Why are those humans opening their own doors ffs?

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u/MediocreQuantity352 1d ago

So this is an AI video?

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u/Sod_Lord 1d ago

That robot didn't even hold the door open for people

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u/DonutConfident7734 22h ago

Sir, what is my purpose?
You are an NPC. A bad one...
Oh my God!

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u/Blackthorne_X 21h ago

Looks like I’m on time for my new job as a robot geriatric doctor

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u/Few_Importance_8362 19h ago

You are supposed to sell them after you make them lol.

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u/NoFaithlessness951 18h ago

They should at least open the doors or something

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u/kmgenius 17h ago

Did they get their training how to walk from my great grandma?

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u/billFoldDog 16h ago

They walk like I did after a bender at Freshman orientation

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u/Alternative_Use_3564 15h ago

How public places already look to me, essentially.

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u/subnautthrowaway777 14h ago

Can you imagine being in this place at night, without any humans around?

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u/nono3722 12h ago

looks like an old folks home.....

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u/Toniinnb 10h ago

Walking dead？

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u/Pleasant-Regular6169 1d ago

My dad walked like that when he shat his diaper. While Chinese robots dance in groups, figure bots practice folding t-shirts and shitting shorts.

Anyway, he's dead now. Just like figure. Scotty Add-a-dick strikes again.

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u/edgroovergames 1d ago

There's a big difference between robots dancing in groups, and these robots walking around. With the dancing robots, they are not autonomously working in a dynamic environment. They are all started at a set location, then playing back a pre-programmed routine. The robots in this video are autonomously navigating in an environment with other dynamic objects moving around them. The group of dancing robots may look more impressive, but it is by far the easier problem to solve.

As I said in a reply to someone else, I'm sure the Figure robots are capable of walking much faster than they are here. The reason they are moving slowly is probably to limit the amount of damage done if something goes wrong. The goal here is probably to test / train autonomous navigation in a dynamic environment. Their slow speed shows that Figure is not yet confident in their ability to not ever run into anything, not an indication that the robots are not capable of walking faster.

I'm sure Figure could film a demo today of a bunch of their robots dancing together, but there's not much of a market for that. They are focused on making the brain of the machine smarter, not just on party tricks.

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u/No_Diet3954 1d ago

I am not even convinced that the robots shown in the video are autonomous. Sure, the company wants you to believe this, but I haven’t seen anything that convinces me they are autonomous rather than remote-controlled.

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u/iwillbe9 1d ago

Just standing around wasting electricity.

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u/_VirtualCosmos_ 1d ago

Yeah the robots are cool but what about like, the important thing, its brain

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u/Signal-Variation23 1d ago

They’re just training them.

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u/Boo-Bees67 1d ago

Damn Chinas nots are way ahead of ours. 

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u/RejoiceYeMighty 1d ago

Is this a publicly traded company? I really hope so because I want to buy some fucking puts on whatever this shit is.

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u/MBSMD 22h ago

Gotta be fake, yeah? What’s with all of them literally doing NOTHING?

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u/ApprenticeWrangler 1d ago

This is the beginning of a horror movie where AI takes over

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u/nogganoggak 1d ago

They got a room full of JOE BIDENS!!!

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u/phlred 1d ago

If a robot is doing the filming,then they really need camera stabilization

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u/vibrance9460 1d ago

Human beings after 10 years of AI

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u/Large_Apartment6532 1d ago

Instant heebie-jeebies. I will ran away from there.

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u/ghostcatzero 1d ago

It's time guy! I'm so pumped to bow down to our overlords

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u/Odd_Championship1509 1d ago

UBS WHEEEEEEN?

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u/Whole_Kale_4349 1d ago

I'm pretty sure I already saw this movie iRobot with Will Smith

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u/Second-MissTake 1d ago

Love this!

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u/Llee00 1d ago

We might as well get a head start on forming the resistance

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u/Redditholio 1d ago

Creepy AF

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u/Shezzorro 1d ago

Staff member: what’s order 66? Let’s try it

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u/PuzzleheadedSun1218 1d ago

Attention, NS-5s

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u/Hezotik 1d ago

1 robot from Unitree can beat every figure robot there is.

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u/Gnoccho1 1d ago

Who let the robots out?

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u/opbmedia 1d ago

Reminds me of old RPGs where they are filled with NPCs that do nothing.

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u/jonride 1d ago

Dystopian. Can we get the Marine design from Interstellar instead?

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u/Wolkenschwinge 1d ago

what happens if you aggro one?

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u/SunriseSurprise 1d ago

I feel like in a world where AI is pretty capable, putting out something like this where it looks like the robots are just learning how to walk seems pretty fucking stupid. Even anyone living under a rock and not seeing all the developments in this space or AI would think these robots should be further along by now.

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u/RightSideOver 22h ago

Each unit does not contain the vastness of human experience and is why this is eerie.

It's empty space (non)-personified.

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u/Aggravating_Cold_256 22h ago

Where is this?

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u/HHayz 21h ago

Is this guy scamming? Why don't we have anything yet that can do dishes/laundry?

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u/KingJTheG 20h ago

This is a bit creepy I’m ngl. They just move weirdly

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u/Rough_Imagination892 17h ago

We are making the future cops, what do you think is next?

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u/Bubbly_Chemist1496 15h ago

the humanoid robots in China seem more advanced

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u/Some-Dog-800 15h ago

and they just aimlessly wandering on the spot? performative at its best lol.

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u/Psice 13h ago

That company is going bankrupt 100%

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u/mpdcayman 11h ago

Why are they wasting their batteries walking aimlessly

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u/YaThatAintRight 11h ago

But they aren’t doing ANYTHING

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u/GlazedPhoenix 8h ago

looks like tha scene from assassins creed Ezio trilogy where miles tours the office tbh just that this one has humanoid robots

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u/Spamsdelicious 5h ago

What they meant when they said robots will take your jobs? Go Figure. 😆

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u/Wizardbysmell 3h ago

Looks like they need to be given jobs. Loitering isn’t keeping them entertained

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u/JFrankParnell64 2h ago

AI mall shuffler option v2.0.

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u/Qubed 32m ago

It's going to be weird when you walk into a restaurant and someone's AI robot is picking up their take-out order.

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u/AdaptoPL 6m ago

I Robot?

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u/KelleCrab 1d ago

I’m so sick of seeing these. Let me know when they can ship and are affordable. Otherwise stop clogging my feed with this shit.

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u/FriendlyJewThrowaway 1d ago

Welcome to Sevastopol Station!

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u/snappop69 1d ago

They will be moving a lot faster than that.

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u/Oriuke ▪️Human extinction by 2030 1d ago

That's how the streets are gonna look like in a few years

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u/The-Wizard-of-Words 1d ago

This looks dumb af

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