Figure's '01' Humanoid Robot Does a Live OpenAI-Powered Demo. It Hands Brett Adcock an Apple, Explains Why, Folds Laundry. The Internet Immediately Accuses It of Being Teleoperated. Figure Releases Raw Unedited Footage. It's Real — Which Is Somehow Creepier.
March 13, 2024: Figure posts a 2:35 demo of humanoid 01 running GPT-4V speech + vision. Founder Brett Adcock asks 'Can I have something to eat?' Robot hands him an apple with hesitation-filled 'uhhhh's between words — too human. Reddit and Hacker News spend a week insisting it's teleoperated. Figure releases the raw take: it's all autonomous, running at 1/3 real-time. Jim Fabulous Fan calls it 'the scariest robot demo ever.' Company valued at $2.6B two months later.
Figure's '01' Humanoid Robot Does a Live OpenAI-Powered Demo. It Hands Brett Adcock an Apple, Explains Why, Folds Laundry. The Internet Immediately Accuses It of Being Teleoperated. Figure Releases Raw Unedited Footage. It's Real — Which Is Somehow Creepier.
March 13, 2024: Figure posts a 2:35 demo of humanoid 01 running GPT-4V speech + vision. Founder Brett Adcock asks 'Can I have something to eat?' Robot hands him an apple with hesitation-filled 'uhhhh's between words — too human. Reddit and Hacker News spend a week insisting it's teleoperated. Figure releases the raw take: it's all autonomous, running at 1/3 real-time. Jim Fabulous Fan calls it 'the scariest robot demo ever.' Company valued at $2.6B two months later.
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