From The Humanoid Files

The US China war takes shape, manufacturing slows but labor shortages in high mix low volume play to the potential strengths of mobile manipulators aka humanoids.

The Global Race for Humanoid Robots Heats Up

Here are several articles that go deep into some interesting aspects of humanoids and AI. I recommend reading them together. And the latest in The Humanoid Files is Figure moving away from Open AI in order to focus on showcase their own models.

Today, I made the decision to leave our Collaboration Agreement with OpenAI

Figure made a major breakthrough on fully end-to-end robot AI, built entirely in-house

We're excited to show you in the next 30 days something no one has ever seen on a humanoid

Few additional thoughts from my announcement yesterday: We can’t outsource AI for the same reason we don’t outsource actuators, batteries, or electronics - it’s too critical to performance

LLMs are getting smarter yet more commoditized. For us, LLM's have quickly become the smallest piece of the puzzle, the much harder part is designing new AI models that allow for high rate robot control (robots working in the real world)

Figure's AI models are built entirely in-house, making external AI partnerships not just cumbersome but ultimately irrelevant to our success

Figure Founder and CEO Brett Adcock