🤖 The $20,000 Humanoid Robot That Washes Dishes

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In today’s Daily Report:

• 🦾The $20,000 Humanoid Robot That Washes Dishes

• 🦅What Do Americans Really Think About AI?

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

FIGURE AI

🦾The $20,000 Humanoid Robot That Washes Dishes

Figure AI introduced “Figure 03 (F.03),” a new general-purpose humanoid robot equipped with Helix to see, act, and do just like humans.

Key Details:

• Helix is a Vision-Language-Action Model (VLA) that enables F.03 to think like us in three ways:

  1. See: Recognize objects like we do with our eyes.

  2. Listen: Listen to instructions like we do with our ears.

  3. Do: Perform movements like we do with our bodies.

• Imagine saying: “Grab that red sponge!” F.03 would See the red sponge, Listen to the command, and Do it by reaching out and picking it up.

• Figure AI also built “BotQ,” a high-volume manufacturing facility designed to produce up to 12,000 humanoid robots per year.

Why It’s Important:

• Labor costs heavily influence the prices of goods and services. Efficiently deploying F.03 in warehouses could reduce labor costs over time, ultimately lowering the prices of goods and services for consumers.

• The humanoid robot market will likely reach $5 trillion by 2050. That means there could be more than 1 billion humanoid robots in use within the next 25 years! So, as humanoid robots become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, we must address ethical concerns to ensure they enhance human well-being.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

AI RESEARCH

🦅What Do Americans Really Think About AI?

The Harvard Business School (HBS) recently surveyed 2,357 Americans to understand their views on AI and automation in the U.S. workforce.

Key Details:

• Americans already support automating 30% of occupations based on the capabilities of today’s AI. When asked to imagine AI that’s faster, better, and cheaper than most humans, support for automation jumped to 58%.

• In other words, most Americans aren’t morally opposed to automation; they just don’t believe today’s AI is capable enough yet. Most resistance isn’t about principle, it’s about performance.

• That said, there’s still a clear boundary to how much Americans will accept: 12% of occupations, including clergy, judges, and childcare, are considered “morally repugnant” to automate.

Why It’s Important:

• The Stanford SALT Lab also recently surveyed 1,500 U.S. workers across 104 professions, discovering that they primarily want to automate low-value, repetitive responsibilities.

• Around 80% of the U.S. workforce could have at least 10% of their responsibilities affected by LLMs and AI Agents within the next five years. Over 30% of U.S. workers might see at least 50% of their daily workflows disrupted by GenAI.

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🥪BRIEF BITES

Google introduced “Gemini Enterprise,” which empowers every employee to discover, create, share, and run AI Agents to automate daily workflows.

Zendesk upgraded “The Resolution Platform,” adding an array of powerful AI Agents designed to resolve over 80% of customer support issues without human intervention.

Appfigures published “Top Ranked iOS Apps,” noting that Sora by OpenAI surpassed 627,000 downloads in less than five days despite still being invite-only.

MIT CSAIL developed “Steerable Scene Generation,” which digitally recreates real-world settings, such as kitchens and living rooms, to help robots learn how to interact with doors, tables, chairs, utensils, and cushions.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Energy Robotics raised a $13.5M Series A for an AI-based robotics software platform.

• Datacurve closed a $15M Series A to provide frontier coding data for foundation models.

• EvenUp landed a $150M Series E at a $2B valuation to redefine personal injury law.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Samsung (San Jose, CA): Compiler Engineer Intern, Summer 2026

• Google (Mountain View, CA): Pixel Product Design Engineer, Entry-Level

• Anthropic (San Francisco, CA): Data Operations Manager, Mid-Level

• Waymo (Mountain View, CA): Experiential Marketing Lead, Senior-Level

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