I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot by Will Knight
Generalist and some other robotics startups are investing heavily in a general robotic model trained by humans. The company builds special gloves resembling robot pincers that have cameras attached to them, which people then use to perform different chores. I saw a crate piled high with several hundred of these grippers destined for workers in Mexico and elsewhere.
The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home by Michelle Kim
Investors are pouring money feverishly into solving this challenge, spending over $6 billion on humanoid robots in 2025. And at-home data recording is becoming a booming gig economy around the world. Data companies like Scale AI and Encord are recruiting their own armies of data recorders, while DoorDash pays delivery drivers to film themselves doing chores. And in China, workers in dozens of state-owned robot training centers wear virtual-reality headsets and exoskeletons to teach humanoid robots how to open a microwave and wipe down the table.
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Humanoid robots are Meta’s next ‘AR-size bet’ by Alex Heath
He said that Meta’s new Superintelligence AI lab is collaborating with the robotics group to build a “world model” that can “do the software simulation required to animate a dexterous hand.” (Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis has also talked frequently about his goal of building a world model that brings spatial awareness to AI.) The “sensor loop doesn’t exist” for a humanoid to be able to gingerly fetch a set of keys out of a jeans pocket like a human could, Bosworth explained. “So you have to build that data set.”
But why?