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Last week, AI startup Physical Intelligence unveiled<\/a> its first general robot model, \u03c0\u2080 (pi-zero), which can do everything from clearing the table after dinner to folding the laundry. Earlier this year, the company was valued at $400 million.<\/a><\/p>\n Now, a Monday report<\/a> shows that the startup has reached unicorn status<\/a>, surpassing a $1 billion valuation after raising $400 million, at a valuation of $2.4 billion, from investors like Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, and Thrive Capital.<\/p>\n Physical Intelligence’s goal is to bring general-purpose AI into the real world with robotics, according to its website<\/a>. It only took them eight months to develop<\/a> the robot model \u03c0\u2080, which the startup says is the “first step” towards a future in which robots process and perform tasks with as much ease as AI chatbots answering prompts.<\/p>\n “Our mission at Physical Intelligence is to develop foundation models that can control any robot to perform any task,” the startup wrote in a blog post<\/a>. “Our experiments so far show that such models can control a variety of robots and perform tasks that no prior robot learning system has done successfully.”<\/p>\n Related:<\/b> Meet Figure 02, the ‘Most Advanced Humanoid Robot on the Market’ Backed By Jeff Bezos, OpenAI<\/a><\/p>\n A video released last week shows a \u03c0\u2080 robot taking clothes out of a dryer, putting them in a basket, placing the basket next to a table, and then taking the clothes out one by one and folding them into a neat stack.<\/p>\n Two \u03c0\u2080 robots also work together to load coffee into a coffee grinder: One robot holds the bag of coffee beans open while the other scoops the beans out. The same two robots assemble a cardboard box.<\/p>\n Yet another \u03c0\u2080 robot clears up after dinner by picking up delicate wineglasses, utensils, and plates and placing them into a bin. The robot recognizes the difference between what needs to go in the trash, like food scraps, and what needs to be washed, like a plate, and places each into its appropriate container.<\/p>\n At Physical Intelligence (\u03c0) our mission is to bring general-purpose AI into the physical world.<\/p>\n We’re excited to show the first step towards this mission – our first generalist model \u03c0\u2080 ? ?<\/p>\n Paper, blog, uncut videos: https:\/\/t.co\/XZ4Luk8Dci<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/XHCu1xZJdq<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Physical Intelligence (@physical_int) October 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Though these initial results show the robots “in their infancy,” they “paint a promising picture” of the future of AI robotics, according to Physical Intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other robotics startups in the space include Figure AI, a $2.6 billion company<\/a> backed by Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, and OpenAI that develops humanoid robots.<\/p>\n Related: <\/b>This Company Built a New Kind of Robot: ‘It Moves the Way People Move’<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhat Can the Robots Do?<\/h2>\n
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