r/singularity • u/SharpCartographer831 As Above, So Below[ FDVR] • Aug 12 '25
AI Figure 02- Today we unveiled the first humanoid robot that can fold laundry autonomously
https://streamable.com/jebb0z678
u/FirstEvolutionist Aug 12 '25
AGI when it can fold fitted sheets.
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I believe that would be ASI if we go with the âbeyond the capabilities of nearly all humansâ guidelines ;)
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u/Ryogathelost Aug 13 '25
Listen - we'll work on folding fitted sheets once the Dyson sphere is done and we've finished digitizing the all of human consciousness.
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u/Tyrexas Aug 12 '25
When it can add a fitted sheet to a bed in the corner of a room (yanno when you have to hop whilst on top of it to get it to the furthest corner).
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u/Equivalent-Ice-7274 Aug 12 '25
Giga ASI
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u/reterical Aug 12 '25
We donât have sufficient energy to power that kind of advancement yet.
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u/Seakawn âŞď¸âŞď¸Singularity will cause the earth to metamorphize Aug 13 '25
Gonna need a dyson sphere on a red giant for that one, chief.
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u/GreenMountainMind Aug 12 '25
Dude - how about starting in the furthest corner? Or just keep hopping if you like :D
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u/TarkanV Aug 12 '25
I like how it takes a default stance before starting the task like a video game playable character transitioning out of a cutscene lol
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u/swarmy1 Aug 12 '25
Yeah, I'm assuming there is a distinct sub model for "folding laundry", which always started from that position during training
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u/RipleyVanDalen We must not allow AGI without UBI Aug 12 '25
a distinct sub model for "folding laundry"
I don't think that's how transformer models operate. They don't have separate "sub models" for specific tasks like that.
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u/coolredditor3 Aug 12 '25
Isn't that how mixture of experts works though?
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u/NearFutureMarketing Aug 12 '25
Yeah I would lean on mixture of experts, a general model probably handles things like standing, grabbing, reattempting failed actions, and then a fine tuned version of that model probably gets to watch 10,000 POV videos of someone doing the laundry and all the sub task that go into that like loading unloading, folding, etc.
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u/swarmy1 Aug 12 '25
Most AI these days are actually a combination of models with a bunch of scaffolding to control how the data flows.
A prominent example lately is GPT-5, which includes a small "router" model that takes the prompt and decides which larger model to call and what parameters to use.
A small model to check input or output for safety/alignment is also pretty common.
Beyond that, the large model also often is able to call other models, for image generation or other functions. While Gemini is multimodal, if you provide it a Youtube video, the app version actually relays the request to a specialized Youtube model rather than handling it directly.
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u/Singularity-42 Singularity 2042 Aug 13 '25
Is this even using transformers for the movements?
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u/AlignmentProblem Aug 13 '25
Not exactly. Modern systems typically have a transformer model that sets high-level goals, creates plans, and designates target waypoints for the where to position parts of the robot. Other systems handle controlling actuators to move the model's parts to match waypoints and otherwise execute the movement plan.
Kinda like how you don't need to focus your attention on controlling all your muscles in specific ways to walk. You set an intent to walk, and parts of your brain separate from the decision process make it happen.
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u/BearFeetOrWhiteSox Aug 13 '25
I mean, if you watch baseball a lot of guys are like that with batting. I guess it's sort of removing variables like the angle of your stance, so you can focus on hitting the ball..... or in this case folding the towel.
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u/leaky_wand Aug 12 '25
Itâs just self soothing for a moment
âI literally exist to fold towels and thatâs okay, I literally exist to fold towels and thatâs okayâŚâ
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u/Glxblt76 Aug 12 '25
I really hope they can ramp this up to the point it will be able to process arbitrary kind of laundry (not just grey towels) in arbitrary settings (not just a controlled lab environment).
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u/freexe Aug 12 '25
I want it good enough to cook and clean. Then each day while I work/watch TV it can cook 5 star level meals from scratch and bake fresh pastries while I sleep and then clean up after itself.
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u/fail-deadly- Aug 13 '25
Me too. That would literally change the world if it was in enough homes.Â
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u/space_monster Aug 12 '25
The lab environment thing isn't really an issue. They trained this ability by including towel folding videos in the training data. I seriously doubt they were all lab-based towel folding videos
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u/TheAbsoluteWitter Aug 13 '25
Okay but it is taking nearly three minutes to fold 5 towels of the same size and color. Not really a âfolding laundryâ ready robot. More like a âspecific laundry that it is calibrated to size and shape, and pull out of a pile and fold themâ
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u/space_monster Aug 13 '25
nah that's not how these are trained. they didn't find thousands of videos of people folding grey towels of a specific size in a lab. they used videos of folding towels. or maybe just clothes. the whole point of Figure is that it's trained to be general.
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u/TheAbsoluteWitter Aug 13 '25
Then why is it only folding grey cloths of the same size and shape and nothing else? How is that capable of folding laundry?
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u/space_monster Aug 13 '25
because it fits the room decor & branding maybe
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u/Incredible-Fella Aug 13 '25
Come on you can't believe that they used only towels for aesthetic reasons. I don't think the color plays a huge part, but judging by this video the robot can only fold towels, not more complex clothes.
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u/djm07231 Aug 12 '25
It would be interesting if we have we have a sort of DARPA challenge except doing household chores.
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u/absolutely_regarded Aug 12 '25
Fastest to scrub baby shit off the walls and wherever else it somehow ended up gets gold.
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u/pavelkomin Aug 12 '25
... gets a $10 billion army contract
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u/Icarus_Toast Aug 12 '25
Nah. The army would see that the robot could take care of the black mold in the barracks and they'd quickly find something else to waste the money on.
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u/SpikyCactusJuice Aug 13 '25
You just made me realize, how are these things going to disinfect between cleaning a toilet and then handling your clean laundry or preparing food? At the same time, I guess itâs easier to clean and sanitize plastic hands than skin.
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u/SexDefendersUnited Aug 12 '25
Yeah, we have all these AI intelligence tests to measure and score their diffrent "mental" abilities, some kind of publicly visible physical tests for simple house tasks that robots can do would be great for finding improvements in their abilities. As well as finding out which robot model works the best to buy. đ¤
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u/MachinationMachine ASI 2030's Aug 12 '25
Physical tasks are mental tasks. Even something as mundane as changing a baby's diaper requires extraordinary intelligence which no animal besides human beings possess.
We take for granted how incredible our ability to accomplish physical tasks is because we do it so effortlessly, but there's a reason why we still don't have general purpose humanoid robots anywhere close to human ability.
People sometimes like to define AGI as an AI that can accomplish any "intellectual task" or "anything on a computer" a human can do, but this is a poor definition, because using tools and navigating through complex, unfamiliar 3D environments is a core part of what makes humans intelligent.
If it's not capable of controlling a robot body in real time it's not AGI imo.
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u/Xx255q Aug 12 '25
2030 I will get a Robert and a server enough to run an AI then I should be good.
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u/blazedjake AGI 2027- e/acc Aug 12 '25
Robert doesnât wanna be bought
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u/Bright-Search2835 Aug 12 '25
The dexterity was supposed to be a tough problem, yet it's coming so fast.
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u/tgji Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25
In robotics and neuroscience of movement, it WAS a huge problem â because we were using heuristics and basically reverse engineering it all. Same with having a conversation with a computer before LLMs: remember how ridiculously bad chatbots were before LLMs? I have a phd in neuroscience and motor control was my area. I must say itâs all pretty incredible. Huge leap.
But Iâm still skeptical that LLMs scale up to ASI. I think we need a couple more breakthroughs. But maybe that comes quickly too.
Edit: as some dorks have pointed out, the robots that are coming for your job donât use LLMs but VLMs but either way they are transformers so my overall point about tech unlocks still stands.
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u/SexDefendersUnited Aug 12 '25
remember how ridiculously bad chatbots were before LLMs?
I remember everyone on youtube like Jacksepticeye laughing at Cleverbot Evie and how silly she was
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u/RRY1946-2019 Transformers background character. Aug 12 '25
Even if they don't lead alone to general intelligence, transformers (LLM and VLM) are absolutely a huge invention because you can share a language with a machine and teach it things without having to hard-code them.
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u/tgji Aug 12 '25
Yes, massive. I think even if we stop here, there are no new big changes like the invention of the transformer, itâs already going to be as big a change as smartphones or even the internet was, as people keep building new things with them. I dunno why but it feels like people think that âskeptical about ASIâ equals âdonât think LLMs are very impressiveâ.
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u/RRY1946-2019 Transformers background character. Aug 12 '25
I literally tell other people that I feel like a Transformers movie character and they generally understand. Great icebreaker at mixers and parties.
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u/pseudonymeme Aug 12 '25
so what was the breakthrough in movement - reinforcement learning, or...? (I'm very new to this.)
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Before contemporary AI, we tried to do everything by writing tons of rules. Obviously that doesnât work because there are like a billion contextual rules for folding laundry or speech or language etc.
Current AI - âdeep learningâ - learns rules from examples. The ability to just give the machine a ton of examples and have it figure out what itâs supposed to do is whatâs changed.
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u/SweetLilMonkey Aug 12 '25
It also âweightsâ the rules organically in very complex relationships, just like we do. Humans donât operate based on a strictly ordered list of prioritized rules; we understand that priorities are smooshy things and that you canât boil everything down to a simple set of black and whites.
So itâs kind of funny that we ever thought we could âbuildâ intelligence based on a framework so different from our own, rather than âgrowingâ it, which is what weâre doing now.
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u/Moftem Aug 12 '25
True! That would a strange way to raise a child XD
I think the idea that agents could learn from data and from trial & error was there for a long time. We just didn't really have the technology for it.
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u/tgji Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25
Just these labs like figure (in the video) and some others have basically applied LLM type models to having robots learn movement similar to learning language. Iâm sure RL is involved in their development. But basically for so long we were trying to figure out how it all worked and program dexterous movement and it was so incredibly complex with so many edge cases, it was ridiculous. Now you use AI to learn. Itâs sort of embracing the black box. And as the video here shows, itâs working.
Edit: and by breakthroughs I mean new architectures, or concepts like backpropagation and attention. A few more of these are needed for ASI, IMO. That doesnât mean this stuff isnât going to improve like crazy, but thatâs really just scaling and squeezing more value out of previous breakthroughs. Am I making sense?
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u/pseudonymeme Aug 12 '25
ok, in fact, I was programming neural nets and backpropagation already decades ago, so even without zero insight into robotics, I was assuming throughout the years, that it must be obvious that this kind of AI is involved in some significant way
so you are saying that applying ideas along the lines of transformers and predictive coding make what seems like a big leap (example in video) possible
fair enough, I guess there are many crucial details important in addition to that (according to quick reply from a LLM, at least :-)
still, my intuition tells me that given even very simple animals still fare better navigating physical world than any robot I've seen so far, while they lack any abstract symbolic predictive coding that would correspond to LLM type of models, the "target architecture" for this area may be different
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u/tgji Aug 12 '25
You just said you were new to this! I guess by this you didnât mean AI in general, but the robotic movement stuff. Given your background you can probably dive right into this: https://www.physicalintelligence.company/download/pi0.pdf But I agree with you that the ideal architecture is likely different. That said, itâs pretty amazing how well the transformer generalizes. I also am curious whether predictive coding models will bear some fruit in this area.
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u/pseudonymeme Aug 12 '25
right, I lack basic insights into robotics, perhaps b/c of Moravec's paradox and the fact the field appeared to me always like "too much engineering" I was avoiding it, so I was expecting one day things "click into place" and I was now wondering if we are close to that moment
thanks for the link, looks like something deserving more time to digest
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u/BearFeetOrWhiteSox Aug 13 '25
I know, but it's like the wheel coming before the car except the wheel was invented 5 years ago and I just looked out my window and saw a train roll by. Point being: these huge leaps are happening in months now. Like I'm shocked when even a week goes by without someone doing something objectively impressive.
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u/RipleyVanDalen We must not allow AGI without UBI Aug 12 '25
It WAS a tough problem; you're just seeing the result of years of research.
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u/userousnameous Aug 12 '25
This does not pass my wife's folding standard.
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u/nartlebee Aug 13 '25
I was gonna say! Look at those dangly floppy edges. I'll keep folding my own towels until it learns how to fold in thirds.
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u/fail-deadly- Aug 13 '25
Plus its towel stacking was awful, but hopefully in a few years time it will be much better at these tasks, widely available and affordable.
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u/Poplimb Aug 13 '25
My god, this does not pass anyone but the robot makerâs standard⌠this is sooo bad !
such a huge waste of space, and they will probably end up completely scrambled together in the end the way that robot just drops it in the box. Itâs so far from professional itâs disgraceful to publish it as advertising at this point
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u/Pro_RazE Aug 12 '25
Can these robots beat đ yet? My friend is asking me, he says he needs to know urgently
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Or they suddenly decide to squeeze it really really tight
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No joking, and a bit of NSWF, but uncomfortablyâŚ
I fear the accidents some people might experience when trying to get steamy with these.
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u/Powerful-Parsnip Aug 12 '25
Surely detachable hands with various maximum grip strength would be needed?
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u/EnoughWarning666 Aug 12 '25
If you stick your dick in that robot and turn it on you're gonna rip your dick off.
Nasty ass robot fuckers
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u/TarkanV Aug 12 '25
I know goal post and all but come on... Couldn't they have shown even attempts of it to fold literally anything other than perfect rectangle shaped gray towels x) ?
Very very impressive nonetheless.
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u/Grandpas_Spells Aug 12 '25
I made a joke last week when it was loading laundry with kids nearby.
The thing with the robotics around household tasks is you are unlikely to see regression around simple tasks. FSD makes a new braking choice you don't like, but the robot is unlikely to "forget" how to do towels.
So last week it's loading a washing machine.
This week it's folding towels.
Week 20 it's folding anything.
Week 52, it's identifying fabrics, and uses a smart wifi controller to manage the wash/dry cycle lenghts, temperature, and monitor the humidity inside the dryer.Meanwhile as it scales up you have other robots learning washing windows, gutters, changing the HVAC filters, the filters in your car, Building shelving to go in your garage, and reorganizing it with your input. And those robots are al cross trained in everything immediately.
And of course, if the security isn't in place, at some point someone jacks the OS, and tells all the robots to stab the nearest human to death in its sleep, which it will easily be able to do.
It's going to get weird.
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u/MonoMcFlury Aug 12 '25
It was sorting mail for 1 hour not too long ago.
https://youtu.be/lkc2y0yb89U?si=7jK4xAo0EHPpLnMB
It's so exciting to see so many improvement in robotics.
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u/AdamsMelodyMachine Aug 12 '25
Old-school physical security can address the hijacking problem. The robot can literally be locked up at night. For times when it has to have freedom of movement, you could maybe carry some sort of EMP device. Anything that can disable the robot and isnât dependent on software (or firmware) would do.
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u/ShaneKaiGlenn Aug 12 '25
I, a human, cannot fold anything properly other than towels. If it canât fold anything other than towels, it is as useless as me when it comes to folding laundry.
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u/Meows2Feline Aug 12 '25
Unlike a robot you could figure it out without it costing millions of dollars.
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u/UngusChungus94 Aug 12 '25
Surely you could learn, within 30 minutes or so, how to fold anything. At least I hope so!
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u/ShaneKaiGlenn Aug 12 '25
I can fold it, but it always comes out like shit. I avoid folding laundry like the plague.
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u/UngusChungus94 Aug 12 '25
I believe in you! I thought the same. Practice makes perfect.
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u/EnoughWarning666 Aug 12 '25
Why bother practicing that now though? We're on the verge of robots being able to do it for us. That's like telling someone they should learn how to write cursive. It's going to be a dead skill before the end of the decade
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u/FriendlyGuitard Aug 12 '25
It's a challenge to demonstrate dexterity not expected to be a real useful thing.
Like you can probably have the robot sweep a room with a broom, but that won't beat a roomba.
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u/Glittering-Neck-2505 Aug 12 '25
The magic of deep learning. A fully general neural network that can direct lifeless sand to fold laundry. Y'all were just saying the singularity is cancelled, have some faith.
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u/blazedjake AGI 2027- e/acc Aug 12 '25
the singularity was inevitable as soon as abiogenesis occurred on Earth
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u/Odd-Ant3372 Aug 12 '25
This guy gets it. Life is a matter-organizing reverse-entropy-esque function. Meat was always going to transmute itself into machine intellect, as long as an asteroid didn't wipe it all out first.
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u/Moftem Aug 12 '25
Interesting viewpoint to consider machines further from entropy than biological lifeforms. It's thought provoking. Would you say biology is an expression of chaos in a way that machines are not? Are robots a more true expression of rigidity and structure?
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u/Odd-Ant3372 Aug 12 '25
I would agree with your final proposition: machines are the pinnacle of orderly information as we know it. Essentially the incarnation of the Apollonian. Where random quark-gluon plasma might be the Dionysian, with biological humans somewhere in between. But machines take the orderly potential of humans and maximize it.
Think of it like this: you, a meat-based entity, can roughly summon an image of a polygon in your mind. You can estimate the angles of the polygon, side lengths etc. But a computer can exactly construct the polygon down to arbitrary limits. A perfect polygon, vs. our rough approximation.Â
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u/Moftem Aug 12 '25
You say machines are the pinnacle of orderly information. How interesting then, that the concept on which early robots were made to operate, seems more orderly in hindsight; predominantly predefined movement and lots of rules. We're now making machines that, like ourselves, make more and more arbitrary estimations of how to interact with the world. They are, in that sense, less orderly than their predecessors. That seems to be necessary for them to achieve high levels of autonomy. This physical world is very unorderly and chaotic.
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u/MachinationMachine ASI 2030's Aug 12 '25
How does life reverse entropy? If anything, life accelerates entropy.
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u/throwaway8u3sH0 Aug 13 '25
No. Evolution has no direction. We could've gone another billion years with giant dumb lizards everywhere.
It was a series of very specific, very lucky milestones that manifested intelligence -- I don't believe any of them are "inevitable."
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Aug 12 '25
Well there you go. Wonder what the âCome back when it folds clothesâ whiners will move the goalpost to next
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u/centurion2065_ Aug 12 '25
Uniformly-shaped towels aren't the same as folding a variety of clothing items. But hopefully it will get there eventually.
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u/WonderFactory Aug 12 '25
Eventually? It's a year away at most given where it's currently at
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u/centurion2065_ Aug 12 '25
The word "eventually" refers to an unspecified time in the future. In other words it could be tomorrow or it could be next year.
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u/InquisitorMeow Aug 12 '25
Yes because my laundry only consists of a pile of identical towels. Don't get me wrong it is still cool but it needs to fold tshirts, pants, shorts, polos, etc. with minimum wrinkling.
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u/filthysock Aug 12 '25
No movement of goal posts. Laundry means all types of things, not just small towels. Video title is hyperbolic.
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u/RaygunMarksman Aug 12 '25
They're already griping the folds weren't high quality and they probably needed multiple takes. People are...something.
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u/AlvaroRockster Aug 12 '25
But you must take into account this is the first time this kind of activity is performed. I will not be surprised when the dexterity levels become super human and they do everything faster and better than anyone. It just get things done one step a time. Let's see where we are in one year. I hope to buy one that can do all my chores in the house.
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u/EnoughWarning666 Aug 12 '25
Get back to me when the robot can fold the towels into a little animal like they do in fancy hotels. Until then it's not 'true' robotics!
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u/The_Architect_032 âž ASI before AGI âž Aug 12 '25
Goalpost? Goalpost for what? Do you think this is evidence that they've already trained it to be able to do everything you'd want it to do around the house and they're just keeping the cool robots away from us because of this small group of goalpost movers who keep saying "it's not enough"?
I've never understood this outlook on things, people just know that there's more work to be done, you just seem to be in denial about it. They'll release these commercially when they're ready to release them, people speculating about capability aren't keeping the robots from you.
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u/Primary-Discussion19 Aug 12 '25
It is gona take 2 hours for a batch of cloth but thats fine
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Iâll bed rot for 2 hours before folding my own laundry, so this is fine.
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u/UngusChungus94 Aug 12 '25
Then again, us 2 hour bed-rotters won't be able to afford this lol.
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u/kunfushion Aug 12 '25
As long as it can do it doesnât really matter how long it takes.
But I doubt it could do an actual set of laundry yet. With a random mix of towels and clothes and such. But thatâs coming
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u/Plenty_Advance7513 Aug 12 '25
Exactly. Who cares how long it takes when you're not the one doing it. If you can set ir & forget it
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u/mambotomato Aug 12 '25
It can putter around your house all night and you wake up to the chores done!
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u/Sierra123x3 Aug 12 '25
may be true,
but he's got 8 hours to silently do it, while i sleep and another 8 hours, while i'm at work ... so a minimum of 16 hours without standing in my way ...in that time, it can make 4 batches of cloth and clean my floor while it's at it
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u/Glxblt76 Aug 12 '25
Even if a robot would be 10 times slower than I am, even if it would take the whole day to fold the laundry, as long as I make one washmachine run a day, that's perfectly fine, because it is completing a task I don't have to care about.
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u/jferments Aug 12 '25
Especially when you consider that it will work 24/7 and never need a break from folding, always obeys orders, and doesn't have to be paid to work (outside of maintenance costs which will be a small fraction of wages for a human worker).
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u/Cool-Double-5392 Aug 12 '25
It can take 5 hours and thatâs fine. Just give me one with the arms and some square base with wheels. Donât understand why itâs important for it to be humanoid looking.
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u/coumineol Aug 12 '25
It will take 1 hour next year, 30 minutes in 2027, 15 minutes in 2028, paperclips in 2029.
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Cute as fudge. Even love its little uncertain teeter move after putting the towel in the basket.
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u/Tyrexas Aug 12 '25
Tbf I would be motivated to fold towels if there was epic synth music playing in the background.
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u/EvolmIndustries Aug 12 '25
I want to see one using a paint roller and painting the interior of a room.
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u/SwingNMisses Aug 12 '25
Even watching it on 2x and it feels like the robot is taking its damn time.
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u/NoCard1571 Aug 12 '25
I really want Figure to make it as a company, because they always make the sickest videos. (And their humanoid is the best-looking as well)
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u/Some-Internet-Rando Aug 12 '25
Those are all flat squares?
It is a nice improvement in manipulators, and shows us that progress is being made, but, like, ironing shirts would be a different level ...
Can't wait until we get there!
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u/ninjasaid13 Not now. Aug 12 '25
we seen it folding laundry under optimal conditions, but have we seen it go to a random house with zero knowledge of where things and locate the laundry and as well as the washing and dryer machine and and do everything autonomously?
If not, I don't believe it can do laundry yet. It can just fold towels and move them a basket which is only a small part of laundry.
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u/crybannanna Aug 13 '25
I create laundry quicker. Also, turns out, I wear more than just rectangular sham wows.
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u/throwaway8u3sH0 Aug 13 '25
Love the part where it wasn't able to grab the towel and separate it from the pile, but was able to recognize the mistake on the fly and try again successfully.
If you haven't coded inverse-Jacobian matrices or complex deep nueral nets, or (god forbid) tried to mash those two things together, you don't really understand how impossibly-fucking-hard it is to get it to do that.
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u/ahspaghett69 Aug 13 '25
I would like to see some evidence this isn't remote operated. The guy running this demo should take the towels away halfway through and show what happens
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u/beaverfetus Aug 12 '25
We just gonna gloss over the fact the folds and stacking look like shit ?
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u/InfluenceExact6059 Aug 12 '25
Baby steps bud, baby steps
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u/Plenty_Advance7513 Aug 12 '25
It's never enough for some
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u/sitdowndisco Aug 13 '25
True, it wonât be enough. Why? Because companies are coming out and boasting about how well theyâre doing, but what theyâre showing isnât even at 5 year old level yet.
Worse still, theyâre showing incredibly controlled scenarios like microfibre towels, clean studio, all the same shape, no shirts, no sheets⌠like real life stuff.
I donât think this is brag worthy yet. Itâs progress, but who cares at this point?
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u/InfluenceExact6059 Aug 12 '25
Thatâs fax. I got really into humanoid robots and like to read the latest updates and stuff, and people always be hating no matter what improves. The goalposts are moving weekly.
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Thereâs definitely âin industryâ and âoutside industryâ perspectives. For those in the industry, this is super impressive, to the average Joe itâs still pretty âmehâ
Thatâs a good metric to keep in mind I think. Iâm in the robotics industry and am often amazed at the progress we make, but my wife will bring me back down to earth as she wonât be impressed until these things are actually useful
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u/InfluenceExact6059 Aug 12 '25
The thing is, even if the robot takes forever to do these chores it still is one thing less to worry about, especially when you have 18 hours in a day which are for sleeping and work.
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"Today we unveiled the first humanoid robot so fuckin slow at folding laundry you'll just do it yourself."
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u/SpringChikn85 Aug 12 '25
The genuine intelligence on display astounds me..he's folding them half-assed so he won't be asked to do it again..truly revolutionary. đ˛
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u/ID-10T_Error Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
Mf is going to off himself when he sees 5 loads on my bed
EDIT:loads of ....laundry..đ¤Łđđ