{"id":542387,"date":"2026-04-21T06:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542387\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T06:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:44:07","slug":"will-destiny-the-humanoid-robot-take-your-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542387\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Destiny the humanoid robot take your job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Destiny can run, dance and even perform Kung Fu moves, and Wallace, from Gedling in Nottinghamshire, expects to see humanoids programmed to do laundry or cooking and cleaning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He describes the humanoid as an &#8220;embodied AI model with the ability to speak, react and manipulate the real world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Like so much of our technology its basic hardware is built in China but NextGen Ri, where Wallace works as head of robotics, has a UK contract to build additional kit and customise those robots commercially.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wallace designed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cm2k12erdndo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">robotic dog<\/a> for a national policing trial last summer, and now he is programming Destiny to perform tasks for businesses using instructions that train it like a pet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It might be a reward for staying stood up, but a punishment for falling over, and to get the higher reward it learns how to balance,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Destiny can run, dance and even perform Kung Fu moves, and Wallace, from Gedling in Nottinghamshire, expects to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-542387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}