Humanoid Robots Are Getting Real Jobs

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Once the creatures of science fiction, robots with human-like bodies and artificial-intelligence brains are getting jobs at warehouses and factories stacking, sorting and lifting. WSJ tech columnist Christopher Mims explains what it’ll take to get these bots from warehouses to homes. And, we’ll find out how underused GPU chips could open up new ways to train AI models without massive data centers. Charlotte Gartenberg hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.3	Welcome to Tech News Briefing.
0:35.4	It's Tuesday, March 4th.
0:37.0	I'm Charlotte Gartenberg for the Wall Street Journal.
0:39.8	Could your gaming PC help train artificial intelligence models?
0:43.9	A handful of startups are looking to stitch together virtual networks of graphics processing units or GPUs to compete with massive AI data centers.
0:53.6	We'll hear how underused GPUs, the advanced computer chips that power AI might open
0:59.0	the door to new AI players.
1:01.0	Then, Star Wars' C-3PO and the Jetsons Rosie the Robot are still the stuff of science fiction,
1:08.0	but humanoid robots might soon be helping us do more
1:11.5	everyday tasks.
1:13.4	WSJ tech columnist Christopher Mims tells us what the latest humanoid robots are doing and
1:18.6	the tech that could bring them into our homes.
1:25.6	But first, tech CEOs like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman think that dominating
1:31.8	an AI will come from amassing as many GPUs as possible and networking them together in massive
1:37.9	data centers. But what if there's another way? For more on that, we're joined now by our tech
1:44.1	reporter Deepa Sita Rahman.
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