Humanoid robots: 'we could be one-to-one with humanoids quickly'

<p>Optimus, the Tesla bot, has been in development for 2 years and still can’t really do that much. There’s another dream team of engineers and roboticists who are building a humanoid robot that they call the “kinder, gentler” robot.</p> <p><br></p> <p>In this TechFirst we chat with 2 investors in Figure.ai: Jesse Coors and Gregg Hill.</p> <p><br></p> <p>They think humanoid bipedal robots could be one-to-one with humans in numbers &quot;pretty quickly.&quot; Corporations will want thousands, and most of us will want at least one.</p> <p><br></p> <p>We also dive deep in the Figure.ai robot as I ask them these questions:</p> <p> - Capability?</p> <p> - Timeline to usefulness?</p> <p> - Battery life?</p> <p> - Cost?</p> <p> - Where does a humanoid robot fit in the world?</p> <p> - What does it do to our economy?</p> <p> - Where do you see it helping most?</p>