Brett Adcock

we basically wanted to put this K-cup inside this Keurig and run it.

It was pretty simple, nothing crazy, but we had a Keurig machine, coffee cup, and a K-cup, and we had to go grab the K-cup, open the Keurig, put it in, close it, run it, and then make coffee.

It sounds simple, but for a humanoid robot to do that is extremely hard, and then we wanted to do all of that with just neural networks.

It sounds simple, but I mean... Simple task for humans.

Give it to a four-year-old.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, the dexterity on the hands of that thing is just to hand you that bag of gummy bears.

Yeah.

Yeah, then can you do it with neural nets on board?

It's crazy.

Can you not code your way out of it?

Can you have a... Can you take in camera pixels and then output trajectories for the motors through a neural network?

No code.

And we did that in 2023 on figure one.

And it was like probably the...

probably the most significant demonstration we've done in four years now, almost four years, where we were like, internally, we were like, you know, how do we get neural nets to run on a humanoid?

I don't know.

I think it's probably one of the first examples in the world to ever have shown that.

And...

You know, this was like game on.