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Way back in the mists of time when I was a young lad circa the middle of the last century, towards the end of the previous millennium, one of the things that drove my ambitions to become an engineer was my desire to work with robots.
Previous attempts to build such robots led to ‘broken tendons’
(Reuters) -Robotics startup Figure said on Thursday it raised $675 million in a funding round from investors including Nvidia, Microsoft and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos at a valuation of $2.6 billion. Sunnyvale, California-based Figure also said it signed a collaboration with OpenAI to develop generative artificial intelligence for its humanoid robots. Other companies involved in the Figure funding include OpenAI Startup Fund, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Parkway Venture Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures and ARK Invest.
The robots reshaping our world are tackling a wide spectrum of tasks, from factory to warehouse, urban and the field to space exploration and beyond.
Aaron Edsinger, the former Google Robotics director who now serves at Hello Robot’s CEO, isn’t attempting to build the universal home robot -- at least not now. Mobile manipulation is a huge, huge bottleneck to the development of a proper home robot.