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... "Pick up the cassette tape from the pile of stuff over there." What if Helix had never actually seen a cassette tape with its own eyes before (granted, they are pretty rare these days)? Combining the general knowledge that large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT have with Figure's own VLM, Figure can identify and pick out the cassette. It's unknown whether it'll appreciate Michael Jackson's Thriller as much as we did though. ...

Yeah, but my criterion for a robot is...

I toss a scrunched up tee-shirt at the robot.

How long does it take for that robot to undo the mess of the tee-shirt and wear it?

I face that problem every morning when I delve into the dresser drawer and take out an undershirt to wear for the day.

How would a robot handle that daily task?

Or do we just see the tasks that robots are good at doing, an not those that they fail miserably at?