The creators of the chatbot ChatGPT want to bring their artificial intelligence software to humanoid robots. The start-up Figure wants to use OpenAI to develop new AI models for its machines, which can walk upright and already perform complex movements with their mechanical hands. In January, Figure agreed with BMW to supply robots for use in car production in the US state of South Carolina in future. OpenAI's AI software is trained with huge amounts of data. Figure recently demonstrated in a vi
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is looking to fuse its artificial intelligence systems into the bodies of humanoid robots as part of a new deal with robotics startup Figure. Sunnyvale, California-based Figure announced the partnership Thursday along with $675 million in venture capital funding from a group that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as well as Microsoft, chipmaker Nvidia and the startup-funding divisions of Amazon, Intel and OpenAI. Figure is less than two years old and doesn't have a commercial product but is persuading influential tech industry backers to support its vision of shipping billions of human-like robots to the world's workplaces and homes.
Way back in the mists of time when I was a young lad circa the middle of the last century, towards the end of the previous millennium, one of the things that drove my ambitions to become an engineer was my desire to work with robots.