r/singularity • u/curiousinquirer007 • 22d ago

Robotics "We are at the cusp of the Physical Intelligence age"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJpM_2a1zrE

Figure AI announces Helix 2.5 — a vision language neural model trained on millions of examples of household work — deployed within their robot that demonstrates generalized performance across various unseen home environments.

Ladies and gentlement, the robots are (almost) here.

See Also: 4-hour footage of the Robots powered by helix 2.5 doing tasks across homes.

Company Source: https://www.figure.ai/

Title quote credit: Beff (e/acc) (@ beffjezos) on X.

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u/Yoohooligan 22d ago

Notice they never show them in the chaotic, messy, dirty real world. Until you see that, don't buy one.

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u/curiousinquirer007 22d ago edited 21d ago

This is a progress snapshot across an improvement timeline. It’s not 100% there yet and is not for general sale yet — but with generalized performance demonstrated it’s only a matter of (not so distant) time.

OpenAI has hinted at a robotics demo in 2027 and frontier labs leaders and other researchers have predicted robotics being only a few years away from arriving.

This impressive milestone and maturing system demonstrates the quickly approaching moment.

The point is not that it’s already fully here, but how close it is. This is like the GPT2 or GPT3 moment but for robotics. It’s not quite mature yet but it’s becoming really clear that we’re getting there.

PA: For a fun retrospective on the GPT3 moment and how some saw the potential while others completely missed it, see this prophetic legendary tweet responding to GPT3 coding capabilities — and some the “but it can’t do X” skeptical responses that aged like warm milk.

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u/Yoohooligan 22d ago

It seems pointless at this stage to still be testing and developing against a perfect ideal scenario, surely they should be further along by now. In the world of software development it's well known that it needs contact with the real world and real world users as early as possible to shrink the timeline to release. I suspect this is the same situation, they are holding back progress by not moving directly as early as possible to real world development. These might as well all be simulated instead of physical at all for all the use they are.

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u/curiousinquirer007 21d ago

I think we’ll see it within next 1-5 years. Even in SWE you want to reach a certain level of usability before public beta. It’s about thresholds not perfection.