Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. Meet Figure 02—The Cutting-Edge Humanoid by Figure AI. Figure 02’s Sleek Design Revolutionizes Robotics. Figure AI Inc. has introduced its latest humanoid robot, Figure 02, which builds upon the success of its predecessor, Figure 01, for industrial use.

Meet Figure 02—The Cutting-Edge Humanoid by Figure AI

Tesla will be putting humanoid robots into production within months, according to the firm's CEO. Steve Benford and Praminda Caleb-Solly: Elon Musk's recent announcement on Twitter that "Tesla will have genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production for Tesla internal use next year" suggests that robots that have physical human-like characteristics and provide "genuinely useful" function might be with us soon.

'Genuinely useful humanoid robots' coming next year, says Musk

Entrepreneur

Figure 02 was successfully tested at BMW Factories.

Meet Figure 02, the 'Most Advanced Humanoid Robot on the Market' Backed By Jeff Bezos, OpenAI

Nearly two years after ChatGPT launched, AI is still dominating the stock market. Microsoft and Apple have long been the two most valuable companies, but Nvidia recently joined them in the top three. Nvidia has seen monumental growth as it dominates the market for AI hardware. While the current buzzword...

Nvidia, Microsoft, or Apple: Which $3 Trillion-Dollar Stock Is the Better Artificial Intelligence (AI) Play?

Silicon Valley-based Figure has unveiled its next-generation Figure 02 humanoid robot, which leverages NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA GPUs to perform fully autonomous tasks. According to the NVIDIA Blog, the Figure 02 model has been tested for data collection and use-case training at BMW Group's Spartanburg production line in South Carolina.

Figure Launches Advanced Humanoid Robot Leveraging NVIDIA AI for Autonomous Tasks

Alexandr Wang dropped out of MIT to create his own AI startup. His net worth is now $2 billion.

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A lady is cautioning others about purchasing budget earrings from Amazon, Shein, and H&M, after she experienced keloid formations on her earlobes due to wearing them. On a TikTok post that has garnered more than 334,000 likes, Sailor Rozema (@sailor.rozema), a content creator, shares a warning with her community of "dangly earring girls": the inexpensive jewelry found in fast fashion can have negative impacts on your well-being.

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The mantis shrimp is one tough customer. Beautiful and deadly are two words you don’t typically use to describe shrimp, but the mantis shrimp is definitely in a class of its own; earning a reputation as the ‘savage boxer of the sea’ and one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean. And, they're right at home here in South Carolina.

Savage Boxer of the Sea: The Deadly Beauty of Mantis Shrimp

JPMorgan Chase has rolled out a generative AI assistant to tens of thousands of its employees, the initial phase of a broader plan to inject the technology throughout the bank. The program, called LLM Suite, is already helping more than 60,000 employees with tasks like writing emails and reports. The...

JPMorgan Chase is giving its employees an AI assistant powered by ChatGPT maker OpenAI

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SHANGHAI — At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in July, startup founder Qu Dongqi showed off a video he had recently posted online. It displayed an old photograph of a woman with two toddlers. Then the photo sprang to life as the woman lifted the toddlers up in her arms and they laughed with surprise.

China Is Closing the AI Gap With the United States

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More dangerous substances are entering the Denver drug supply, Harm Reduction Action Center warned in a newsletter this week. “The Iron Law of Prohibition posits that as law enforcement becomes more intense, the potency of prohibited substances increases,” HRAC Executive Director Lisa Raville wrote in the newsletter. That is exactly what is happening, she said.

Dangerous substances entering Denver drug supply

All of the investments made this year by Bezos' family office — called Bezos Expeditions — have been in artificial intelligence, according to data provided to CNBC by FINTRX, a private wealth intelligence platform. Bezos Expeditions has always tilted heavily toward tech. Fully 70% of the family office's...

Jeff Bezos' family office is making big investments in AI

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NEWARK, N.J. – Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (DCR) have issued Findings of Probable Cause against six property management companies and owners in various counties for failing to comply with requests for emotional support animals. These actions stem from alleged violations of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD).

Housing Discrimination Against Emotional Support Animals Targeted

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Dennis the Menace actor Jay North is now 73 years old. This is his story. On August 3, 1951, Jay North was born Jay Waverly North, Jr., in Los Angeles, and seven years later, began acting on TV on shows like Wanted: Dead or Alive, and 77 Sunset Strip.

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Vivek Mohindra, Dell's corporate strategy SVP, says AI will make Dell staff "much more effective at their jobs," but not all workers are convinced.

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Living in the area of Wood Dale, I am always on the hunt to try somewhere local and support them. I remember trying Elio Pizza several years ago and I was not really impressed with the food. However, my biggest complaint was the atmosphere created by the employees. My first interaction felt very cliquey, with preferential treatment given to people they knew instead of new customers.

This Popular Italian Restaurant in Addison has lost my business for good—no more Chances.

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 A federal judge has branded Google as a ruthless monopolist bent on suffocating it competitors. But how do you go about creating alternatives to a search engine that's synonymous with internet exploration?It's a process that may take years to unfold as Google appeals the landmark decision issued Monday by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta.And with that kind of time frame looming, the forces of technological upheaval may make the exercise moot. The rise of artificial intelligence may reshape the landscape more quickly and profoundly than any judge ever could. The way consumers navigate the internet is more likely to...

A judge has branded Google a monopolist, but AI may bring about quicker change in internet search

It's been five years since the tragic death of acclaimed actor René Auberjonois at 79 from metastatic lung cancer in 2009. René Auberjonois was known for several heralded television performances on shows such as Benson, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Boston Legal.

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The National Conference of State Legislatures’ annual Legislative Summit is the largest policy conference in America. Every August, a thousand or more lawmakers spend a few days packed in ballrooms and breakout sessions to hear what’s working, and what’s not, in an eclectic array of policy areas.

The year of AI

Have you ever thought about what it costs to be homeless?. Oh, I know, the quick answer is that it doesn’t cost anything. Everything is free. My readers bemoan free phones, Medicaid, food stamps … everything that is provided to people experiencing homelessness. So, they especially didn’t like it when I reported that the Denver Basic Income Project wants more money from the city.

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Figure AI Debuts New Humanoid Robot to Challenge Tesla

Robotics startup Figure AI has unveiled the brand new Figure 02, the latest iteration of its humanoid robots following the debut of its Figure 01 model...

Figure AI Debuts New Humanoid Robot to Challenge Tesla

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