Teach It Once, Then It Works Alone: A Factory Robot Hit 98% a Month After Training, Its Maker Says

Swiss start-up Embodied AI says its rolling humanoid, Air, takes over a task about a month after remote-control training and hit 98% in one customer's factory test (company claims, secondary report).

TL;DR

A Swiss start-up called Embodied AI rolled out a humanoid named Air in Munich on Nov. 6 that learns a job the way a new hire does. A person first drives it by remote control, and the company says the robot then takes over on its own after about a month, depending on the task. Once one Air has learned a skill, that skill can be copied to every other robot in the fleet. In one customer's test on a cable-handling job, Air hit 98% reliability against the customer's 90% bar, and four rival start-ups in the same test reportedly fell short (company claims, relayed in a secondary report). Air is built for factory floors, but show it, then hand it over, is the same recipe the home robots people are waiting for will need. To see our odds on when robots like this clock in on their own, and the timeline of breakthroughs that leads from the factory to the kitchen, subscribe.

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