Sanctuary AI Robotics
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Sanctuary AI
Vancouver, Canada
Headquarters
Vancouver, Canada
Founded
2018
Employees
140+
Social
1 channels
Strategic Snapshot
How this brand positions its humanoid systems.
Build reliable robots that deliver measurable value in real-world environments.
General-Purpose Robot Development
Sanctuary AI focuses on creating robots capable of performing a wide range of tasks, suitable for various industries and applications.
Advanced AI Integration
Their technology leverages cutting-edge artificial intelligence to ensure realistic human-like decision-making, adaptability, and responsiveness in robots.
Human-Centric Design
Sanctuary AI designs humanoid robots with a focus on safety, ethical considerations, and practical collaboration between humans and machines.
Latest from Sanctuary AI
Robot Videos: Sanctuary AI Robot, 1X EVE Humanoid, and More - IEEE Spectrum
Humanoid robots from Sanctuary AI and 1X are featured in this edition of Video Friday, a collection of robotics videos showcasing the latest developments from various robotics companies and researchers. As with every single cooking video, there’s a lot of background prep that’s required for this robot to cook an entire meal, but I would utterly demolish those fries. Please send us your events for inclusion. Enjoy today’s videos! I think suggesting that robots can’t fall is much less useful than instead suggesting that robots can fall and get quickly and easily get back up again. Agility Robotics is doing its best to answer the (very common) question of “Okay, but what can humanoid robots actually do?” ...
Mentee Robotics de-cloaks to launch new AI-driven humanoid robot - The Robot Report
mentee humanoid robot with commands listed. The Menteebot humanoid can take verbal instructions and then execute a mission. | Credit: Mentee Robotics ## Leveraging Sim2Real training data Mentee Robotics is developing a humanoid robot that it said will be capable of understanding natural-language commands by using artificial intelligence. The growth and evolution of large language models (LLM) over the past year is the foundation for this capability. [...] The company‘s founders also include Prof. Lior Wolf, the CEO of Mentee Robotics and formerly a research scientist and director at Facebook AI Research, and Prof. Shai Shalev-Shwartz, a computer scientist and machine learning researcher. Prof. Shashua is also the founder and current CEO of Mobileye, a public company that is developing autonomous-driving and driver-assist technologies and harnessing advancements in computer vision, machine learning, mapping, and data analysis. The company joins a growing list of robotics developers that have launched competing humanoids in the past year, including Figure AI, Sanctuary AI, Apptronik, Tesla, 1X, and others. mentee humanoid robot with commands listed. [...] The prototype of Menteebot that was unveiled today incorporates AI at every level of its operations. The motion of the robot is based on a new machine-learning method called simulation to reality (Sim2Real). In this method, reinforcement learning happens on a virtual version of the robot, which means that it can use as much data as it needs to learn and then respond to the real world with very little data. NeRF-based methods, which are the newest neural network-based technologies for representing 3D scenes, map the world on the fly. The semantic knowledge is stored in these cognitive maps, which the computer can query to find things and places. Mentee’s robot can then figure out where it is on the 3D map and then automatically plan dynamic paths to avoid obstacles.
Fourier Intelligence launches production version of GR-1 humanoid robot - The Robot Report
No price has yet been announced for the production unit. Humanoid robots got a lot of attention this past year, as developers including Apptronik, Boston Dynamics, Figure AI, Sanctuary AI, Tesla, and Unitree demonstrated progress with dexterous manipulation and bipedal locomotion. Most are initially intended for applications in logistics and manufacturing, and Agility Robotics is in commercial trials with Amazon and GXO Logistics. The global market for humanoid robots could experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46.5%, from $1.7 billion in 2023 to $36.1 billion by 2030, projected MarketDigits. It noted demand in healthcare and search-and-recue use cases.
humanoid robot | TechCrunch
Figure 02 robot ### Figure’s new humanoid robot leverages OpenAI for natural speech conversations ### Neura shows off humanoid robot 4NE-1 Agility Robotics Digit at GXO ### Agility’s humanoid robots are going to handle your Spanx Boston Dynamics bipedal robots to brace for the inevitable ### Humanoid robots are learning to fall well Sanctuary humanoid robot ### Sanctuary’s new humanoid robot learns faster and costs less Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot goes electric ### Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot goes electric ### A humanoid robot is on its way from Mobileye founder Boston Dynamics' Atlas in action ### Atlas shrugged: Boston Dynamics retires its hydraulic humanoid robot ### European car manufacturer will pilot Sanctuary AI’s humanoid robot [...]
Mentee Robotics de-cloaks to launch new AI-driven humanoid robot - The Robot Report
Mentee Robotics came out of stealth today and unveiled its first bipedal humanoid robot prototype. An experienced team founded the Herzliya, Israel company in 2022. It includes Prof. Amnon Shashua, the chairman of Mentee Robotics, an expert in AI, computer vision, natural language processing and other related fields. The company‘s founders also include Prof. Lior Wolf, the CEO of Mentee Robotics and formerly a research scientist and director at Facebook AI Research, and Prof. Shai Shalev-Shwartz, a computer scientist and machine learning researcher. Prof. Shashua is also the founder and current CEO of Mobileye, a public company that is developing autonomous-driving and driver-assist technologies and harnessing advancements in computer vision, machine learning, mapping, and data analysis. The company joins a growing list of robotics developers that have launched competing humanoids in the past year, including Figure AI, Sanctuary AI, Apptronik, Tesla, 1X, and others. ## Leveraging Sim2Real training data Mentee Robotics is developing a humanoid robot that it said will be capable of understanding natural-language commands by using artificial intelligence. The growth and evolution of large language models (LLM) over the past year is the foundation for this capability. The prototype of Menteebot that was unveiled today incorporates AI at every level of its operations. The motion of the robot is based on a new machine-learning method called simulation to reality (Sim2Real). In this method, reinforcement learning happens on a virtual version of the robot, which means that it can use as much data as it needs to learn and then respond to the real world with very little data. NeRF-based methods, which are the newest neural network-based technologies for representing 3D scenes, map the world on the fly. The semantic knowledge is stored in these cognitive maps, which the computer can query to find things and places. Mentee’s robot can then figure out where it is on the 3D map and then automatically plan dynamic paths to avoid obstacles.
Face to face with Figure's new humanoid robot | TechCrunch
Much has changed in the 16 months since I last set foot in [Figure](https://www.figure.ai/)’s Sunnyvale headquarters. For one thing, there’s signage on the outside of what was an otherwise non-descript Silicon Valley office building in an equally non-descript Silicon Valley office park. For another, there’s no longer an empty desk in sight. The robotics company currently employs 130 engineers, according to CEO Brett Adcock, who met me on site for a better look at the company’s latest humanoid robot, Figure 02. Next year, Figure will be using some of its [$1.5 billion in funding](https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/29/figure-rides-the-humanoid-robot-hype-wave-to-2-6b-valuation-and-openai-collab/) to move into new, larger digs a short car ride away. Robots line the rear of the space, in various states of disassembly. Shelves, too, are packed with pieces of arms and heads by the dozen. A silver Figure 01 hangs on full display. I asked to photograph the robot, and was jokingly told it’s “old news.” Since [my May 2023 visit](https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/24/2546360/), Figure has opened the systems integration and testing wing of its current space. Adcock refers to it as “the back,” despite the fact that it’s really more off to the side. It’s here the robot’s many components are put through their paces. The real show, however, is smack in the middle of the primary office space. Caged off from the row of desks, Figure engineers go hands-on with the robots here, testing for all manner of real-world work scenarios. There’s currently a heavy emphasis on automotive assembly, a direct product of the company’s recent pilots with BMW. Earlier this year, Figure robots were put to work for a couple of weeks at the carmaker’s [Spartanburg, South Carolina, plant.](https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/18/bmw-will-deploy-figures-humanoid-robot-at-south-carolina-plant/) According to Adcock, the company’s humanoids worked nearly around the clock, seven days a week. While moving totes is a key task, it’s not the only one the company is currently working on. Figure robots will be returning to the plant in January, this time for good. Adcock says the initial fleet will be in the mid-to-high single digits. Automotive has proven to be the most eager to adopt the humanoid form factor. It makes sense: Carmakers have been deploying robots on factory floors for decades now. Competitors Boston Dynamics, Apptronik, and Sanctuary AI have all announced their own pilots with car companies. And then, of course, there’s Tesla’s Optimus. Agility, meanwhile, is focused on consumer goods, piloting with Amazon and more recently announcing that its Digit robot had moved past the pilot stage at [a Spanx factory](https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/27/agilitys-humanoid-robots-are-set-to-handle-your-spanx/). Even so, it’s always edifying to see these systems up close. Even if a robot video isn’t heavily edited, teleoperated, or some other trick of the trade, you never really know how many takes the robot required to get things just right. The real test, however, will begin January 1, when Figure’s robots return to the BMW plant.
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