Humanoid Robotics Technology
Sanctuary AI, dedicated to pioneering the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots, has introduced the seventh generation of its general-purpose robot, Phoenix™. This latest iteration, alongside its AI control system, Carbon™, approaches human-like capabilities even more closely, featuring significant enhancements to both hardware and AI software. The unveiling follows the launch of Sanctuary AI’s sixth-generation robot, recognized as one of TIME’s best inventions of 2023, in under a year. Notably, it comes within 16 months of the commercial deployment of the fifth-generation robot in January 2023.
This generation of Phoenix is one of the most sophisticated human behavioral data capture technologies available today, providing Carbon with some of the highest quality, highest fidelity, training data available. The changes include:
- Increased uptime, making robots more available for training and data capture
- Increased build and commissioning speed, allowing us to bring more units online faster
- Reduced bill of materials, lowering the cost of manufacture
- Significant hardware improvements, increasing range of motion in the wrists, hands, and elbows, and increasing hand durability
- Further miniaturized hydraulics, reducing the weight, power consumption, and complexity with increased hardware and software measures that exceed specified safety standards
- Improved visual acuity and tactile sensing, leading to higher-fidelity data to train the AI control system
- The time it takes for new tasks to be automated has gone from weeks to less than 24 hours, marking a major inflection point in task automation speed and autonomous system capability
“It’s incredible to see the progress that has been made in just 11 months,” said Geordie Rose, CEO and Co-Founder of Sanctuary AI. “With Generation 7, we have a system that we believe is the most closely analogous to a person of any available. We see this as not only the cornerstone of general purpose AI robotics but a critical step on the path to artificial general intelligence, and we’re thrilled to be leading the charge on it. This all adds up to being able to capture increasing quantities of higher quality, higher fidelity human behavioral data, which in turn will expedite the development of foundational AI models and customer deployments.”
SOURCE: Sanctuary AI
