ET Graphics: Another ChatGPT moment, robot househelps

In the beginning of 2025, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang had said that the “ChatGPT moment for robotics” is around the corner. Robotics company Figure AI this week made headlines when it demonstrated that robots could sort packages at a logistics unit at human speed.

Founder Brett Adcock said Figure will be able to bring robots to homes within two years. Figure 02 robots can also now reason with Helix AI and do not need any fine tuning of models. Last month, Norway’s 1X also debuted its Neo Gamma humanoid robot which can carry out housework and has better conversational skills.

ET’s Himanshi Lohchab looks at how robotics companies are bringing us closer to AGI with robots.