I always thought humanoid robots look like us because the world is built for humans (doors, stairs, kitchen counters etc) but figure's new release shows another reason, and i think it's the bigger one: > until now, teaching a robot a chore meant collecting data on that exact robot in that exact room, which is slow and expensive and only ever taught it that one thing > figure built an app where people get paid to film themselves doing everyday stuff from their own POV, and about 90,000 people…

adcock_brett@adcock_brett19h ago

The holy grail for robotics is being able to generalize: doing work in unseen places We rented 30 homes in the Bay Area and are doing tasks without any new training https://t.co/l0vekD79N8