Crazy, I was just complaining about how much I hate folding laundry in the last post, and what should appear but a laundry-folding robot! I’m going to buy a lotto ticket. Or, more accurately, $80 in losing scratch-offs. This is a video demonstration of Isaac 1, a housekeeping robot developed
In news that’s only going to increase exponentially as the robot army grows, a little humanoid robot wearing a blue clown wig recently kicked a child at an amusement park in Xinjiang, China. No word if the kid had called the robot’s mom a bucket of bolts. Thankfully, the child
The Argus omnidirectional robot developed by General Robotics Lab is a spherical robot with 20 spherical legs and 20 eyes (technically optical sensors). The robot demonstrates dynamics symmetry, meaning it can generate force/acceleration almost equally in all directions. It reminds me of a land octopus. What’s the 20 equivalent of
This is a video of Unitree’s $650,000 GD01, a giant 1/2 ton humanoid mecha a person can ride inside. It can either walk upright bipedal human style, or transform and walk on all fours like a terrifying robotic animal. The sound of it clanking down the street — that was
This is a video of two Figure humanoid F.03 robots (who look suspiciously like people wearing robot costumes) tidying a bedroom and making the bed. And all in under two minutes! Granted, the tidying consists entirely of closing a laptop and hanging a pair of headphones on a stand, so
This is a hype reel from AI humanoid robot manufacturer Figure, which, in the last 120 days, has scaled manufacturing of their F.03 humanoid robots from 1 a day to more than 1 every hour. They will produce 55 robots this week, and the scaling continues. Presumably until they have
This is a video of Sony AI’s Project Ace ping-pong playing robot. Sure ping-pong is officially known as table tennis, but I feel like nobody who doesn’t own their own paddle calls it that. Admittedly, this robot looks like a pretty fierce competitor. The way it moves — way faster
This is a video of an AgiBot Expedition A3 humanoid robot packing itself in its travel case. Does it look like a pleasure model while it’s folding itself up? Of course it does, this thing had pleasure-bot written all over it even before it was grabbing its buttcheeks with its