OpenAI-Backed Physical Intelligence Targets Advancement in AI for Robotics
The company is in the early stages of developing its foundation models and learning algorithms.
OpenAI-Backed Physical Intelligence Targets Advancement in AI: Physical Intelligence is a new company that seeks to develop artificial intelligence (AI) to power future robots and physical actuators.
In a post on X on Tuesday (March 12), Karol Hausman, co-founder and CEO of the company, said, “We decided to start a company that tackles one of the hardest and most impactful problems — Physical Intelligence.”
OpenAI-Backed Physical Intelligence Targets Advancement in AI for Robotics
The team at Physical Intelligence consists of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders. The company is in the early stages of developing its foundation models and learning algorithms.
According to a press release, OpenAI is backed by Khosla Ventures, Lux Capital, Sequoia Capital and Thrive Capital.
Hausman told Bloomberg that Physical Intelligence plans to develop a universal AI model that can power robots and other physical devices.
According to the report, the company wants to develop a universal AI model that can be used in various applications rather than powering robots that perform repetitive tasks.
Rather than build hardware, Physical Intelligence will purchase different types of robots to train its software, according to the report.
Among the challenges it faces, like other developers of software for robots, is the time-consuming and costly task of training robots to accomplish physical tasks, according to the report. Getting data from the physical world is harder than getting text to train artificial intelligence.
One of Amazon’s warehouses has a humanoid robot that moves bins. This is another recent development in the robotics space. Agility Robotics, the manufacturer of the humanoid robot Digit, plans to produce 10,000 robots every year for warehouses and storerooms worldwide.
Earlier this year, AI and robotics company 1X announced it raised $100 million in Series B funding to develop a bipedal humanoid named NEO that will perform household chores.
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