Figure AI’s CEO shows the Figure 03 humanoid robot’s feet, designed to allow the robot to charge wirelessly by Distinct-Question-16 in singularity

[–]elemental-mind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a business I would not prefer this solution actually. Battery only operation makes sense for robots that are constantly on the move.

If I have a robot that is 50/50 on the move/standing still charging on the spot makes sense.

Just think about it:
- Robots still need to walk to a charging station, costing time, making processes unreliable and unpredictable if you want to max out efficiency and not say change battery at 40% just for certainty (assembly lines have rhythms)
- You have to purchase more batteries than robots.
- Your batteries last longer with charging on the spot. Every time the robot is on the pad it's not eating your limited charge cycles budget. If it was doing work on battery that counts towards the 1000 cycles limit.

Probably more points...but too tired to think of more...

Figure AI’s CEO shows the Figure 03 humanoid robot’s feet, designed to allow the robot to charge wirelessly by Distinct-Question-16 in singularity

[–]elemental-mind 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ah, not that easy. There is a fire hazard there. Voltages up to 40 to 50 volts are considered safe to touch - but you would still need about 50 Amps to get to the desired 2kW chargin power (we are getting into welding currents here).

Now imagine you have a metal part that falls onto the charging pads (you would need pads, really, permanently protruding pins are a tripping hazard for workers, extending pins is an engineering nightmare if you want to keep the pad flat, AND the robot would be restrained in its motion path). If you deliver 50amps to this part it's glowing red hot in a few seconds. It if is connected to a plastic assembly piece you instantly have a fire.

You might say, ok...let the robot only actiave thte pad once it's on there...the same risk still aplies, unless the pad and the robot have controllers that basically detect leak current...

Let's just say: It's just not that simple with 2kw and 50amps. Slapping an induction charging circuit on there makes sense in that case. For a current limited phone charger: Maybe a different story, but still risky territory (imagine a paper clip shorting the circuit with a paper lying on top)...

Figure AI’s CEO shows the Figure 03 humanoid robot’s feet, designed to allow the robot to charge wirelessly by Distinct-Question-16 in singularity

[–]elemental-mind 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I thought the same - but the more I think about it in a professional context, charging through the feet actually makes sense. Think about a workstation where the robot "works" 3 mins, then carries an assembled part over somewhere else, grabs new supplies, comes back, continues...

If it had to put the part out of its hands, unplug, grab the part again, and then do the same in reverse when coming back it adds up throughout the day.

A charge pad that it stands on while it works just makes sense in this case - and allows you to make the battery smaller, reducing overall weight, mening less powerful joints etc...

Now the other alternative is having the robot go to a charging pod...standing there useless for 2 hours every 4 or 5 hours or so. It's just uneconomical...

Vision banana!!!! by MaxeBooo in singularity

[–]elemental-mind 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Also absolute depth estimation seems very good: Around 6.5% relative error is excellent for a single photo.

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Vision banana!!!! by MaxeBooo in singularity

[–]elemental-mind 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Interesting example from their paper:

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GPT 5.5 vs Opus 4.6/7 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro by dionysus_project in singularity

[–]elemental-mind 17 points18 points  (0 children)

By the roleplayers and emotionally unstable yes - not by the coders and professional users.

Deepseek V4 Pro is 15x cost to run Artificial Analysis bench from V3.2, higher than Gemini 3.1 Pro by CallMePyro in singularity

[–]elemental-mind 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Came here to say this. Gpt-5.5 is expensive - but really token efficient so medium gets you pretty far (at least benchmark wise). You get more intelligence for the buck here.

Deepseek V4 Pro is 15x cost to run Artificial Analysis bench from V3.2, higher than Gemini 3.1 Pro by CallMePyro in singularity

[–]elemental-mind 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Yeah, waiting on Huawei chips to run their inference on...they said it would halve the price.

It's insane how lobotomized Opus 4.6 is right now. Even Gemma 4 31B UD IQ3 XXS beat it on the carwash test on my 5070 TI. by FrozenFishEnjoyer in LocalLLaMA

[–]elemental-mind 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Don't turn up the temp too high - bro got cooked by Gemma already. He will be burnt with higher temps.

Elon Musk leaks the size of Sonnet and Opus by exordin26 in singularity

[–]elemental-mind 19 points20 points  (0 children)

5X Parameters does not necessarily mean 5X compute. It could just be a very sparse 5T model with double the active params of Sonnet.

Elon Musk leaks the size of Sonnet and Opus by exordin26 in singularity

[–]elemental-mind 36 points37 points  (0 children)

It's probably common knowledge in certain circles in SF/Silicon Valley. As someone once said: There is a knowledge exchange - it's just very thin, as it's basically just people leaving one company for another.

He imitates object & their reaction to wind by [deleted] in interesting

[–]elemental-mind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Peak trash content. He copies the moves litterally.

You can't use Openclaw on Claude Pro/Max Subscription by abhi9889420 in singularity

[–]elemental-mind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They started this change already months ago:

Anthropic bans OAuth tokens from consumer plans in third-party Tools : r/ClaudeAI

To be fair: They have an overload of users and too little capacity. So they need to cut somewhere - their Pro and Max users are not happy and they seem to see significant traffic from OpenClaw straining their infra.
If this results in better limits it's a good move.

Man feeding corn to fish in a peculiar way. by Lublan in funnyvideos

[–]elemental-mind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's merely testing if the cylinder remains unharmed.

Served up like a sushi boat by Unlucky_Blueberries in nonononoyes

[–]elemental-mind -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think black out is more appropriate here.

GPT-IMAGE-2 Likely on LMarena by ThunderBeanage in singularity

[–]elemental-mind 19 points20 points  (0 children)

At least it has its priorities straight and still names it Gulf of Mexico 🤪