The State of Humanoid Robots at Nvidia GTC

Nvidia GTC earlier this month brought out robots I'd never seen in person before like Neo Gamma, familiar faces performing new feats like Digit and leading humans in the robotics business. We caught up with industry leaders from Boston Dynamics, Agility Robotics, 1X and Disney to learn more about the specific challenges each company is trying to solve, their dreams for the future and the technology that might help them get there. Neo Gamma from 1X 1X had its Neo Gamma robot on display in a home-like environment. The humanoid was picking up a watering can, posing for pictures with the crowd and vacuuming. Neo Gamma vacuuming Jesse Orrall/CNET 1X co-founder and CEO Bernt Børnich told us the demo involved a mix of autonomy and human operation or as he called it "mixed autonomy." In the beginning, Børnich says tele-operation will be used to teach the robot new tasks. Then, once the robot starts being successful in performing its new task often enough, it will start autonomously improv ... Read full article.