Your next BMW X5 could be built by a humanoid robot, as BMW and AI robotics startup Figure today announced a commercial agreement to use Figure’s humanoid robot powered by end-to-end AI at its Plant Spartanburg workforce. Our Malaysian market BMW X5 is CKD, but the packs come from Plant Spartanburg.
The Figure 01 robot will begin with doing five tasks which will be rolled out one at a time. The bot will spend its time being trained on how to do them for the next 12-24 months. The Figure 01 is powered by end-to-end AI, which means it is trained how to perform tasks by watching humans do it instead of having the task itself programmed as a routine inside its system. We’ve covered end-to-end AI before in our story about Tesla and Comma’s driving AI systems.
Below you will find a video showcasing the Figure 01 making coffee after being trained on how to do it for 10 hours. A simple task using a pod-based coffee machine instead of an espresso machine with a portafilter that needs to be filled with grounds and tamped and etc, but it’s a start.
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Great, more redundancies and unemployments. Robots and AI will design, build and drive the cars.
Question is without a job ,who can afford a car in the future ?
Same goes with all the other jobs too which have been automated from design to finance to retail to healthcare to transport .
Soon terminators will be self replicating and we will bring Judgement Day on you humans. The end is inevitable, you will be terminated.
Skynet is coming. I’ll be back, to save humanity.
Another utterly pointless exercise that drums up hype and solves nothing. There are already robots along most of the assembly lines of car factories, the only difference is that they aren’t shaped like humans because its far more productive to use different tools for different jobs. In any case, building a robot the shape of a human being is one of the least efficient ways to build a car.
Dear Employer,
Looking for internship opportunities as Robot’s assistant.
Yours Truly,
Batman
The CEOs, MDs and top management think they can get rid of people and save cost on slalries and benefits… but do they realise that even robots need maintenance and it is unlikely that the maintenance cost will be cheaper then having salaried workers!!.
Maybe ceo and md also can get replace by bot