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🚨 The Figure 03 humanoid bot reveal marks a turning point for the entire robotics industry. Powered by the Helix AI brain, Figure 03 performs real-world tasks - folding laundry, cleaning, handling objects, even interacting safely around people - with no tele-operation! In this @overthehorizon expert panel, Scott Walter, Gustav Andersson and John Gibbs @drknowitall help me dissect what makes Figure 03 revolutionary: ‼️Autonomy vs tele-op - how Helix actually works ‼️Human-centred design: Uniforms, venting, tactile feedback ‼️Hand innovation: Palm cameras, fingertip sensors, and fine-grained control ‼️Mobility & power: 5-hour runtime, 2 kW charging, and natural gait mechanics ‼️Manufacturing scale - why 12,000 bots per year could help redefine industrial labour 🚨 This is more than a robot launch - it’s the birth of embodied AI. #Figure03 #HumanoidAI #EmbodiedAI #FigureRobotics #AIRevolution #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #FigureBot #HumanoidRobot #AIBreakthrough #HelixAI #AIinMotion #FutureOfWork #OverTheHorizon

🚨 San Francisco startup Foundation Robotics is building humanoid robots for work and war. The humanoid bot startup is taking a bold dual-use bet on the future of industry and defence, designing humanoids that can run factory lines today and support military logistics tomorrow. In this @overthehorizon episode, Sankaet Pathak, founder & CEO of Foundation Robotics, joins Gustav Andersson and Scott Walter to unpack the company’s radical approach - from cycloidal actuators and real-world AI training to the ethics and economics of humanoids built to work all day, every day. We explore how Foundation plans to scale from dozens to thousands of robots, why it’s not afraid to talk about defence applications, and what its success could mean for the future of labour, warfare, and national strategy. #FoundationRobotics #HumanoidRobots #DualUse #SanFrancisco #AI #Robotics #DefenceTechnology #EmbodiedAI #Automation #FutureOfWork #AIandWarfare #IndustrialRobotics #SiliconValley #overthehorizonpodcast

Join Scott Walter, Gustav Andersson, Prof John Gibbs @DrKnowitallKnows and Royden D’Souza for a live, expert breakdown of the Figure 03 humanoid bot reveal - the most anticipated moment in robotics this year. 🤖 We’ll cut through the hype to expose what’s real, what’s cinematic, and what it means for the future of humanoid AI. #Figure03 #FigureAI #HumanoidRobot #AI #Robotics #TeslaOptimus #ScottWalter #GustavAndersson #DrKnowitallKnows #RoydenDSouza #OverTheHorizon #HumanoidAI #RobotReveal #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureTech #Engineering #Mach33 #RobotAnalysis #LiveStream

🚨 EXPERT ANALYSIS | FIGURE 03 REVEAL 🤖 The trailer is out, and the hype is real. But what really lies beneath Figure 03’s glossy trailer? Scott Walter and Gustav Andersson join me for an unfiltered, expert-led deep dive into the humanoid bot everyone’s talking about. ⚙️ We break down 👇🏽 ‼️The inductive charging system stamped on its heel ‼️New palm-eye cameras and fingertip sensors ‼️That mysterious thermal design and exoskeleton cooling #Figure03 #HumanoidRobots #AI #Engineering #OverTheHorizon #ScottWalter #GustavAndersson

Sergey Levine is one of the world’s top robotics researchers and co-founder of Physical Intelligence. He thinks we’re on the cusp of a “self-improvement flywheel” for general-purpose robots. His median estimate for when robots will be able to run households entirely autonomously? 2030. If Sergey’s right, the world 5 years from now will be an *insanely* different place than it is today. This conversation focuses on understanding how we get there: we dive into foundation models for robotics, and how we scale both the data and the hardware necessary to enable a full-blown robotics explosion. 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 * Transcript: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sergey-levine * Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fully-autonomous-robots-are-much-closer-than-you-think/id1516093381?i=1000726524050 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1WpOKLN3vSvvWjrVDIJAyy?si=DPxf6K5BSBy5R4OYIqk8pQ 𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐒 * Labelbox provides high-quality robotics training data across a wide range of platforms and tasks. From simple object handling to complex workflows, Labelbox can get you the data you need to scale your robotics research. Learn more at https://labelbox.com/dwarkesh * Hudson River Trading uses cutting-edge ML and terabytes of historical market data to predict future prices. I got to try my hand at this fascinating prediction problem with help from one of HRT’s senior researchers. If you’re curious about how it all works, go to https://hudson-trading.com/dwarkesh * Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (aka nano banana) isn’t just for generating fun images — it’s also a powerful tool for restoring old photos and digitizing documents. Test it yourself in the Gemini App or in Google’s AI Studio: https://ai.studio/banana To sponsor a future episode, visit https://dwarkesh.com/advertise 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00:00) – Timeline to widely deployed autonomous robots (00:17:25) – Why robotics will scale faster than self-driving cars (00:27:28) – How vision-language-action models work (00:45:37) – Changes needed for brainlike efficiency in robots (00:57:59) – Learning from simulation (01:09:18) – How much will robots speed up AI buildouts? (01:18:01) – If hardware’s the bottleneck, does China win by default?