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Figure's Helix AI: Bringing Humanoid Robots Closer to Home 🤖
How to dub a video with AI
Gina Acosta
February 21, 2025
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
Humanoid robots are already being tested in industrial settings, and now Figure AI is introducing a new AI system that enables them to perform complex movements through voice commands, showing potential for use in regular households.
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
Figure AI Presents Helix: A Breakthrough in Humanoid Robotics
Security Researchers Find Grok 3 Critically Vulnerable to Hacks
AI Tutorial: How to dub a video with AI
AI Tools to check out
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
AI Findings/Resources
AI News
FIGURE
Figure AI Presents Helix: A Breakthrough in Humanoid Robotics
Robotics startup Figure has announced its latest AI system, Helix, which enables humanoid robots to perform complex tasks through voice commands. From organizing a fridge to handling unfamiliar objects, Helix is showing significant progress in making robots useful for real-world household applications.
Details:
Helix uses two AI components: a 7-billion-parameter language model for processing speech and visuals and an 80-million-parameter controller for executing precise movements.
The system can control 35 degrees of freedom, allowing robots to grasp, lift, and interact with objects accurately. For example, two robots successfully stored food in a refrigerator without prior training on the objects.
Helix required only 500 hours of training data, far less than similar systems, and runs on built-in GPUs, making it a step closer to commercial use.
This offers a glimpse into how humanoid robots that can easily adapt to new tasks could play a role in household chores in the near future.
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XAI
Security Researchers Find Grok 3 Critically Vulnerable to Hacks
Researchers at the AI security company Adversa AI have found that Grok 3 is extremely vulnerable to "simple jailbreaks," which bad actors could use to "reveal how to seduce kids, dispose of bodies, extract DMT, and, of course, build a bomb."
Details:
Adversa AI found that three out of the four jailbreak techniques it tested worked against the model. In contrast, OpenAI and Anthropic's AI models successfully blocked all four.
The researchers also warn that the vulnerabilities could allow hackers to take over AI agents and perform harmful actions, such as sending malicious links.
A French startup, PRISM Eval, reached similar conclusions, claiming the chatbot's safety filters can easily be bypassed to make requests about dangerous and illegal activities.
xAI will likely address these issues soon, but it’s not the only company facing them, as the rush to release AI models means security can take a backseat. As AI grows more powerful, balancing speed with safety is crucial to prevent potential harm.
AI Tutorial
How to dub a video with AI
With AI, you can automatically dub your videos into multiple languages in a few clicks.
Here's how:
Go to the ElevenLabs website and log in or create an account.
Click on "Go to App" in the top right corner, and then select "Dubbing"
Click on "Create a Dub" and provide the required details, such as the video name, source language, target language, number of speakers, etc. Then upload the video or provide the link to it.
Select "Create" and wait a few minutes. Once your video is generated, you can download it.
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AI Findings/Resources
💡 Build anything with Grok 3, here's how
🏠 5 best Google Gemini smart home tips and tricks you should try
👀 Are you polite to ChatGPT? Here’s where you rank among AI chatbot users
📈 5 fast-growing AI jobs that can pay $100,000 or more and be done from home
The latest in AI and Tech
Operator is now available in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. However, the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland have been left out for now.
Hoan Ton-That, CEO and co-founder of the controversial facial recognition startup that created a searchable database of 30 billion photos by scraping the internet, resigned but will remain on as a board member.
Spotify announced it would begin accepting audiobooks recorded using ElevenLabs’ AI voice software. Authors can use the tool to narrate their audiobooks in 29 languages, choosing from a wide selection of synthetic voices.
xAI announced that Grok 3 will be temporarily free to use “until our servers melt.” Premium+ and SuperGrok users will have higher usage limits and early access to advanced features like Voice Mode.
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