Quote of the day by Figure AI founder and CEO Brett Adcock: 'We're building a new species here' — an audacious vision to replace manual labor with humanoid AI

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There are dozens of companies out there building the first wave of mass-produced humanoid robots, with these androids poised to change the way our society works for the better – or so they say.



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The founder and CEO of Figure AI, a humanoid robotics company, was speaking with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on stage during the annual Dreamforce event when he made this massive claim.

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Prompted by Benioff, who threw out the question: "We're not building robots, we're building a new species?", Adcock agreed, repeating that idea and suggesting the end goal isn't simply to make another kind of machine but to bring into...

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