We have been imagining a future with robots that help us at home. From Robotina from ‘The Supersonic’ to Andrew from ‘The Bicentennial Man’, the fantasy has always been there, but it had never seemed so real. The advances in recent years have taken us to a point where automatons begin to touch the field of everyday life.
Figure AI, one of the most ambitious companies in humanoid robotics, has taken a step that brings that future. His Figure 02 model, known as F.02, has shown that he can fold clothes, reorganize packages and load a dishwasher: simple tasks for us, but greatly complex for a robot.
A jump that redefines the potential of humanoids
With 1.68 meters high and 70 kilos, F.02 is a fully electric robot with an autonomy of about five hours per load. You can walk 1.2 meters per second and transport objects of up to 20 kilos, which places it near the physical range of an average adult.
What makes this robot special is that F.02 does not depend on human operators to execute their functions. Unlike Optimus, the Tesla robot we saw in the event ‘We, Robot’ with several assisted capabilities, this model works totally autonomously thanks to an artificial intelligence system called Vision Language Action (VLA), designed to interpret instructions and act on its own.
The second key point is its ability to learn new skills from training data. F.02 could already fold clothes and move packages, but has incorporated the task of loading a dishwasher No need to redesign your hardware nor to create a new AI model.
The company indicates that this task, which seems trivial, hides huge challenges: separating disorder of messy batteries, reorienting them and manipulating them with centimeter precision, coordinating both arms and handling fragile or slippery objects. Each dishwasher is different, each load is a puzzle, and the system must adapt in real time to unexpected errors or collisions.
The most interesting thing is that everything has been achieved with the same robot and the same digital brain, only adding data. This draws a future in which domestic robots can receive updates for Expand their abilities without replacing them. They could even learn from their own experience at home, closer to a realistic vision of autonomous and useful robots on a day -to -day basis.
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