My favorite AI and robotics examples as of November 2024

Neil McKechnie • November 12, 2024

AI that attends meetings for you, does your laundry, makes coffee, drives you to your destinations, and more.

It's been a few months since I have posted my favorites, and many awesome new tools have emerged. Here are some of my current favorites:


Pi0 is a AI-powered autonomous robot that can do a wide variety of household chores, including folding your laundry, making coffee and more.


Atom Limbs is an AI-powered artificial arm that can be controlled by muscle and brain commands, and it learns the person's intentions the longer she wears it.


Anthropic's AI Claude can now use your computer independently to plan trips, write code, and much more.


HeyGen's avatars can attend Zoom meetings for you, even interacting with real humans based on your past communications that it has learned from.


Figure AI's robot can listen, see, converse and act with a human to accomplish physical tasks.


Google's Project Astra is aware of the physical world and can quickly identify objects, provide information and infer meaning with little context provided.


AI is now doing research on AI advances, providing researchers with novel ideas to accelerate AI development.


And AI is now designing computer chips that - you guessed it - are accelerating the research and deployment of yet more AI.


And perhaps my favorite of all - the Waymo self-driving taxi, with no one at all sitting in the driver's seat.


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