Brett Adcock: Humanoid Run on Neural Net, Autonomous Manufacturing, $50T Market #229

Peter Diamandis (0:00)

I am blown away by how far you've come.

Brett Adcock (0:03)

The things that you can do with neural nets now just completely blow my mind. Every year to year, the whole business looks completely different.

Dave Blundin (0:09)

It's amazing to me how you accumulate data, and the data becomes this incredible barrier to entry, this incredible asset.

Brett Adcock (0:14)

The one thing that's important here is that once one robot learns how to do a task, every robot in the fleet knows it. Humans, they'll operate like this.

Peter Diamandis (0:22)

When do we start seeing robots building robots?

Brett Adcock (0:25)

We will put robots on our Baku lines this year. Listen, this is going to be the largest economy in the world. It's going to be a super impactful business. It will lead to ubiquitous business services for anybody in the age of abundance. And it's going to be a super fun business, too. It's going to build a sci-fi future we all want. What you're seeing is every major group in the world will get in this space. You have to. You have no choice.

Peter Diamandis (0:45)

When are we going to see the first figure in the customer's home?

Brett Adcock (0:49)

My best guess is, I think...

Dave Blundin (0:53)

Now, that's the Moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.

Peter Diamandis (0:58)

So Dave and I are in San Jose at Figure Headquarters. We just did a podcast with our friend Brett Adcock, Extraordinary End.

Dave Blundin (1:06)

Check it out.

Peter Diamandis (1:07)

Check it out. So...

Dave Blundin (1:08)

I'll be here.

Peter Diamandis (1:08)

Yeah. Figure One.

Dave Blundin (1:10)

This is the original.

Peter Diamandis (1:11)

Yeah.

Dave Blundin (1:12)

Still somewhat functional.

Peter Diamandis (1:14)

Yeah. And it ran the first large language model, the first neural net.

Dave Blundin (1:19)

They built it in under a year. Brett actually was screwing these things together himself. And it was all about gathering telemetric data so they could build this.

Peter Diamandis (1:26)

Here's Figure Two. Much more beautiful, much more functional running neural nets across the board, dumping all the C++. Can it do, you know, we need to live long and prosper. But I... And here we go with Figure Three is the workhorse right now. We just did a tour. I mean, probably, you know, saw a hundred of these walking through the hallways, on test stands, cleaning dishes, you know.

Dave Blundin (1:56)

Brett with the thongs, they added a flexible toe too, so it can go down like this. And before it had just this clunky, clunky foot here.

Peter Diamandis (2:03)

And Figure Three has the palm camera.

Dave Blundin (2:07)

Palm cam? Yeah. They cut about 30 pounds off the weight and 90% of the cost. Of the cost.

Brett Adcock (2:12)

Wow.

Dave Blundin (2:12)

Crazy. Yeah.

Peter Diamandis (2:13)

Amazing.

Brett Adcock (2:14)

Yeah, it's the perfect height between the two of us.

Peter Diamandis (2:19)

Welcome to Moonshots, everybody. I'm here at Figure headquarters with Brett Adcock and DB2. Brett, it's been about 18 months since we did a podcast on Moonshots together. And I am blown away by how far you've come.

Dave Blundin (2:37)

18 months in AI time. That's like a decade.

Brett Adcock (2:39)

Welcome to Figure headquarters. What do you think?

Dave Blundin (2:41)

Yeah, it's extraordinary.

Peter Diamandis (2:43)

I mean, just to describe, we just went on a tour. We've got 300,000 square feet, 400,000 square feet of development here. I mean, there are Figure 3 robots walking down the halls. There's fully autonomous robots, I guess, running Helix 2 You just released Helix 2 today.

Dave Blundin (3:00)

Today.

Peter Diamandis (3:01)

I got it while I was flying up here. We have these robots doing everything from kitchen tasks to packages, to manufacturing of different type. I mean, how many robots do you think we saw? Seriously.

Dave Blundin (3:15)

I wasn't counting as we, hundreds, maybe not a thousand. Yeah. Hundreds.

Peter Diamandis (3:20)

At least a hundred or so.

Dave Blundin (3:21)

Yeah. Well, there's a lot of partial robots out there too, so it's hard to-

Peter Diamandis (3:24)

Picking up figure heads.

Dave Blundin (3:26)

How many hands do you think we saw? There's many more hands than our robots.

Peter Diamandis (3:29)

The hand line, the head line, the torso line.

Dave Blundin (3:33)

Actually, picking up the head was the most surreal.

Peter Diamandis (3:35)

This is where the pelvis is made, for sure. Yes. Pretty amazing. I still remember during my first visit with you, full disclosure, my venture fund is invested in two of your earlier rounds. Super proud of the progress that you've made. I still remember your figure one, putting a Keurig cup in a coffee maker, and that was a big deal because it was done with neural nets and not C++.