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Daily Digestible: Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Humanoid robots and quantum computing from Figure.ai and Microsoft.

By Kevin Gillispie

Humanoid Robots

The quest for domesticated automatons is bringing to market new aspirants on the daily. Figure.ai isn’t a johnny-come-lately, but it has recently announced its robotic humanoids, the Figure-02, will have a hive mind called Helix AI to enable organized operation. They anticipate an accelerated timeline to getting robots into your pantry.

Quantum Computing

Microsoft has announced its Majorana 1 quantum computing chip. The most notable distinction is its “Topological Core” architecture. However, keywords in Microsoft’s celebratory article like “expects,” “progress,” and “offer a path” paint an optimistic portrait of the world to come; but the language of the publication do not indicate efficacious operation in the here and now.