{"id":196924,"date":"2025-12-21T19:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/196924\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T19:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:44:10","slug":"we-may-not-know-how-strong-ai-humanoid-robots-really-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/196924\/","title":{"rendered":"We May Not Know How Strong AI Humanoid Robots Really Are"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robot demonstrations and lawsuits are raising questions and concerns about the capabilities — and strength — of humanoid robots.<\/p>\n

First in the spotlight is the robotics company Figure AI, which is facing a lawsuit from former safety engineer Robert Gruendel. The lawsuit alleges the company’s Figure 02 humanoid was shown in tests to be strong enough to “fracture a human skull,” and that Gruendel was fired after raising concerns.<\/p>\n

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A recent lawsuit alleges the Figure 02 humanoid showed in testing was strong enough to “fracture a human skull.”<\/p>\n

Figure<\/p>\n

In a statement to CNBC<\/a>, a Figure spokesperson denied the allegations and said Gruendel was fired for “poor performance.” We reached out to Figure and Gruendel through his lawyers and have not yet heard back.<\/p>\n

Across the globe, the CEO of Chinese robotics firm Engine AI was recently kicked to the ground by the company’s own T800 robot, appropriately (or inappropriately) sharing a name with the model of robot played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Terminator films.<\/p>\n

The CEO wore padding and was prepared for the stunt, but it’s difficult to discern from the video itself and the available information exactly how strong the robot is.<\/p>\n

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Engine AI’s T800 humanoid robot squares up.<\/p>\n

Engine AI<\/p>\n

Max torque and carrying capacity don’t translate conveniently into a calculation of how strong a robot could hit, or how much damage it could potentially do to a human body.<\/p>\n

Taken together, these two parallel news stories raise questions about what kind of information humanoid robot developers should share so that the risks of this technology are properly understood.<\/p>\n

To see both of these robots in action, check out the latest episode of What the Future, embedded in this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robot demonstrations and lawsuits are raising questions and concerns about the capabilities — and strength — of humanoid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-196924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}