{"id":578857,"date":"2024-04-25T13:38:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/?p=578857"},"modified":"2024-04-25T13:41:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:41:51","slug":"sanctuary-ai-latest-phoenix-humanoid-can-learn-tasks-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/sanctuary-ai-latest-phoenix-humanoid-can-learn-tasks-in-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanctuary AI’s latest Phoenix humanoid can learn tasks in 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sanctuary’s seventh-generation Phoenix includes both hardware and software improvements. | Source: Sanctuary AI<\/p><\/div>\n

Sanctuary AI today unveiled the seventh generation of its Phoenix humanoid robot. The Vancouver-based company said its upgraded robot is bringing it closer to the creation of the world’s first “human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots.”<\/p>\n

This announcement comes less than 12 months after the company<\/a> launched its sixth-generation robot, and less than 16 months after it first commercially deployed<\/a> its fifth-generation humanoid<\/a> in January 2023.<\/p>\n

In this week-long pilot deployment, Phoenix worked at a Mark’s retail store in Langley, British Columbia. In that trial, Phoenix successfully completed 110 retail-related tasks, claimed Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp., which was founded in 2018 and does business as Sanctuary AI. <\/p>\n

The company said it made numerous improvements to both the robot’s hardware and its AI control system Carbon.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s incredible to see the progress that has been made in just 11 months,\u201d stated Geordie Rose, co-founder and CEO of Sanctuary AI. \u201cWith Generation 7, we have a system that we believe is the most closely analogous to a person of any available.”<\/p>\n

“We see this as not only the cornerstone of general-purpose AI robotics but a critical step on the path to artificial general intelligence, and we\u2019re thrilled to be leading the charge on it,” he added. “This all adds up to being able to capture increasing quantities of higher-quality, higher-fidelity human behavioral data, which in turn will expedite the development of foundational AI models and customer deployments.\u201d<\/p>\n

This generation of Phoenix excels at human behavioral data capture, giving Carbon access to some of the best training data available. the company asserted. <\/p>\n

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Sanctuary AI obtains IP toward general-purpose robots<\/h2>\n

In December 2023, Sanctuary AI announced<\/a> that it had acquired intellectual property (IP), adding to its asset portfolio of touch and grasping technologies. At the time, the company said it expected the assets from Giant.AI Inc. and Tangible Research to play a pivotal role in its construction of general-purpose robots.<\/p>\n

Sanctuary AI credited these IP assets with expanding its patent portfolio centered around grasping technology. These include visual servoing, real-time simulation of the grasping process, and mapping between visual and haptic data. While it not confirm whether they went into Phoenix, it seems likely.<\/p>\n