In case you haven’t figured it out yet, the robots are coming. The UniTree G1 is side flipping. Atlas is breakdancing. Engine AI is doing axe Gang style. The Disney bot Blue is just being plain cute. Zippy is cooking up Michelin Star food. And the Neo Gamma is tidying up after all of them.
It’s a robot takeover. The UniTree G1 became the first humanoid robot to do a side flip. This incredibly impressive feat comes shortly after it learned how to run and how to fight. It seems like there are very few human mimicking moves that this robot can’t do.
Maybe superhuman next. Just when we thought that Boston Dynamics was being left in the dust by all these robotic startups, they come out with an absolutely incredible demonstration of robot dexterity. In this video, we see the Atlas performing a series of movements that were originally motion captured from a human.
The running is the most human like we’ve ever seen. Is Boston Dynamics about to show everyone its pedigree? Engine AI were wondering what they should do next with their robot, so they gave it a pair of axes and taught it to dance. In this video, we see the humanoid bot doing an ‘Axe Gang’ style dance from Kung Fu Hustle.
In the robot “dance off”, Engine AI might have just taken the top spot. Disney have always been involved in robotics to some degree, but now they’re teaming up with Nvidia and Google in a more serious way to see what robotic marvels they can dream up.
At Nvidia’s recent technology conference, a little robot called Blue walked out onto the stage with Jensen Huang and had the whole audience convinced that robots aren’t actually Terminators at all. Last week, a new robot chef was unveiled. Zippy has a culinary brain pre trained on more than 5 million recipes and can learn new recipes from a single demonstration.
Now this is a robot that we can wholeheartedly endorse. While all the other robots were showing off, the X1 Neo Gamma quietly got on with the housework in a mini home environment. It showed off some of its practical skills to a live audience, including a spot of vacuuming.
Pretty useful once all these other robots have trashed the place. Finally, we must mention Figure AI, who recently moved into their new headquarters and revealed BotQ. BotQ is Figure’s high volume robot manufacturing facility that can produce 12,000 robots per year.
But it won’t stop there. The BotQ is capable of scaling up to support a fleet of 100,000 robots. Figure have their eye on the prize.