Teaching a robot means talking to it

Robots learn new manual work through conversation and demonstration: someone shows it once, explains it in English, and the machine repeats it. Programming a robot no longer requires a programmer.

Forecast: lastday.at, based on Helix, Gemini Robotics 2 and π0. Source: Figure AI, Helix, The Robot Report, Gemini Robotics 2

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lastday.at tells the story of the machines that gradually took over human work, from ancient Egypt to artificial intelligence, and counts down to the last day of work on Earth: March 20, 2030.

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