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On the show today, Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman discuss breaking news about the uncloaking of Figure.AI, a new humanoid robot company with a mission to create an affordable and ubiquitous humanoid robot.

They also discuss the features of the latest ChatGPT release, which delivers scalable infrastructure to support large enterprise interaction with ChatGPT via API. This formalizes the opportunity for roboticists to programmatically interact with ChatGPT for robotic applications. What will you do with it?

Our featured guest his week is Dejan Pangercic, co-founder and CTO of APEX.AI. Dejan talks about software development for autonomous vehicles and how APEX.AI built a hardened operating system for autonomous vehicles around ROS 2. We discuss uses for APEX.AI in both on-road vehicles and for agriculture.

Episode timeline:

06:37  ChatGPT for roboticists

11:24  Uncloaking of Figure.ai

32:20 Autonomous vehicle news: Waymo starts fully driverless testing in LA, Argo.AI relaunched as Latitude.AI. Tesla FDS recall.

40:02 Interview with Dejan Pangercic

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Robotics Summit & Expo (May 10-11) returns to Boston

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Links from the show today:

• Argo AI team joins Ford’s new self-driving startup Latitude AI
• OpenAI releases APIs for production use of ChatGPT
• Figure.ai website
• Figure Promises First General-Purpose Humanoid Robot (IEEE Spectrum)
• Today, Figure emerges from stealth. (LinkedIn)
• APEX.AI Grace
• APEX.AI IDA