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Figure AI is a robotics startup developing human-like bipedal robots that could one day take over human jobs. said On Thursday, it announced it had raised $675 million from prominent investors including Jeff Bezos. The company was founded in 2022 and is currently valued at $2.6 billion.
figure AI master plan “From the role of workers in companies (more than 3 billion humans), to supporting individuals in the home (more than 2 billion people), to caring for the elderly (about 1 billion people), to new worlds on other planets. “It appears to be transforming a variety of industries, including the construction of…” the company said in a statement.
For now, the company is aiming to enter industries “with the greatest labor shortages,” including manufacturing, transportation and retail.
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Figure 01 in action. Credit: Figure AI
The startup’s first product is Figure 01, a general-purpose robot that walks on two legs and has five-fingered hands. A video of the robot in action highlights that the robot can walk up to a pile of crates, pick one up, and place it on a conveyor belt.
A status update slide before the footage showed that the robot’s speed compared to a human is currently 16.7%.
“Figure 01 is completing a fully autonomous task,” writes Figure AI in the video.
Figure AI announced Thursday that as part of the deal, it will partner with OpenAI, the nonprofit behind ChatGPT, to incorporate generative AI into its humanoid robots.created by microsoft Multi-year, multi-billion dollar scale We invested in OpenAI and also invested $95 million in Figure AI. According to Bloomberg.
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Nvidia and Amazon-related funds have each invested $50 million in Figure AI, and Amazon founder Bezos has put in $100 million through his company Explore Investments LLC.Amazon has 7 different robot companies $1B Innovation Fund Portfoliofrom agility robotics to bionic hive.