November 13, 2024
“A billion robots sounds like a lot, but it isn’t, not really”
Built by the Vancouver company Sanctuary AI, Phoenix is racing to become the world’s first general-purpose robot with human-like intelligence—a machine capable of understanding the real world and executing tasks previously done by us. It is an embodied AI. Its intelligence does not merely flash inside a server but reaches out and acts. Like a wide-eyed toddler, it gains facility as it explores and practises.
