The next step of AI: Meta and Apple bet on humanoid robots

Goal is reorganizing the ‘Hardware’ division of reality labs, which currently focuses on extended reality viewers and augmented reality glasses, to develop robots aimed at helping people.

For its development, the team in charge, led by the former executive director of General Motors Co., Marc Whitten, has already made complementary investments in the departments of reality and AI, as indicated by the head of technology in Meta, Andrew Bosworth , in a statement sent the employees, to which Bloomberg has had access.

These robots would look humanoid y They would be the next step in the development of artificial intelligence. According to a source involved in the project, a goal would use the software, sensors and computing that you have already used on its devices.

The objective is that in addition to having human appearance, behave as such y They can attend people in physical tasks, starting with housework as they have shared knowledgeable sources of these plans to the aforementioned environment.

In the same line advances Apple’s plans in artificial intelligence, as Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman, Mark Gurman, advances, The Cupertino company already has its own designs and it would lead to a humanoid robot that would closely integrate its technology and its AI.

Although from a different category, Apple has recently presented ELEGNTan intelligent robot prototype with lamp shapethat integrates Capabilities to interact with users through expressive movements, with the ability to perform tasks such as reproducing music and images and answer questions. This robot is part of an investigation to explore the interaction of functional and expressive objects with humans.

Another company that has considered building a humanoid robot is Openai with which he hopes to expand his technology beyond his generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology. This would have led him to invest in other companies that work in this type of products, such as Figure y 1X, Together with the company of “general purpose” Physical Intelligence.

A sector full of proper names

Meta and Apple’s works are not the first in this area. Boston Dynamics has been showing its advances in robotic mobility with Atlas whose first version was “amateur” to Parkour ‘, that is, to jump, overcome obstacles and give somersaults back.

Its second version, with a more polished design, has new artificial intelligence tools and automatic learning and focuses on the realization of “boring, dirty and dangerous tasks in real applications”.

Tesla is another company that in recent years has been introduced into the humanoid robots sector. In your case, it is Optimus which with the passage of generation has acquired greater mobility in the neck and in the hands, and greater control of movements. He developed thinking about work, to perform different home tasks, such as loading boxes or watering the plants.

These names can be joined by Pepper SoftBank’s humanoid robot designed to attend customers of shopping centers, health and stations, in case they need information, have doubts with a service.