Monthly Archives: May 2023

AI Humanoid Robots

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Open AI, the maker of ChatGPT, has joined forces with Figure, the maker of Figure 01, billed as the first commercially viable general-purpose humanoid robot, have joined forces to create an AI-powered humanoid robot. The idea is that Figure 1 can learn how to do multiple tasks the way… Read more »

Heartless Researchers and Dauntless Robots

A publication from Cornell University focuses on machine learning’s ability to overcome one of the nagging issues for robotics: robots fall over and can’t get up. Solving this problem could make a big difference for cobots, for robots working in unpredictable environments, and for humanoid robots everywhere. Though quadrupedal robots have recently been found to… Read more »

Fewer Manufacturing Job Openings

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. manufacturers had 693,000 job openings in March 2023. This is a drop of 10,000 from the previous month. So is this good news or bad news? Manufacturing slowdown With 200,000 fewer job openings than the same time last year, this could be bad news. Reuters reports that… Read more »

Industry 4.0 and Consumers

This video is a simple concept piece, more like Saturday morning cartoons than like the info-packed Rexroth videos on the subject. But it contains a concept that Rexroth tends to miss. The consumer Most of the facilities we work with are all about building. Maybe they’re all about printing, too, or packaging. They’re not usually… Read more »