Boston Dynamics humanoid robot Atlas could run, jump, do backflips and recover its balance on uneven ground. Now, it’s retired.
Not a day later and the new Atlas was announced. It looks like a sort of cleaner version of the old Atlas, electric, and oh so flexible.
Seeing the legs folded behind the body in the frame above is very creepy. Has no one seen iRobot?
Anyway, the humanoid robot space is really starting to move, with buzzy startup Figure also bringing their bot to life. A partnership with OpenAI has given Figure a seeming lead in the “speech to doing stuff” race - here is the Figure one giving a guy an apple and putting plates away.
What happens in a world where physical labour becomes abundant? I hope we get nicer buildings. Right now whenever I say we should have nicer buildings people say it is too expensive. Maybe robots will change that.
Austen Allred the CEO of Llambda School Bloomtech the dev bootcamp that once touted income-share agreements as an alternative to student loans, was issued an order by the consumer protection people. The ruling names both Allred and Bloomtech, and accuses them of misleading students about loans that they said were not actually loans, overstating placement rates and bans them from consumer lending.
Hacker news had a comment section full of people who were unhappy with their experience with Bloomtech, but Austen hit back on X, retweeting happy customers and a Paul Graham tweet about the dangers of regulated industries.
In its latest direction, Bloomtech is offering a $5000 course on AI for Developer Productivity. Make of that what you will.
Lastly, the new jacked Zuck appeared on the Dwarkesh pod today, I haven’t listened to it yet but I am pretty sure it will be based given how Mark is crushing it these days. With the jujitsu and the leg work, no wonder the stock price is up 44% so far this year.
Until next time,
Jamie
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