Artificial Intelligence · Recorded milestone
Robot foundation models
Recorded year2023
Google DeepMind's RT-2 turns a vision-language model into a robot controller that follows plain-language instructions.
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Led to
- Factory humanoid pilotsRecorded · 2024enables
- Robotic construction sitesRecorded · 2024enables
- Robot vacuum with a tidying armRecorded · 2025enables
- Home humanoids demonstrate selected choresRecorded · 2026enables
- Robots fold the laundryForecast · ~2027enables
- World models that train robotsForecast · ~2027enables
- Humanoids on full factory shiftsForecast · ~2028enables
- Robot hands as deft as oursForecast · ~2028enables
- Robotic IVF labsForecast · ~2028enables
- Robots learn a job in a dayForecast · ~2029enables
- Sink-side dish robotForecast · ~2029enables
- Robot dentists approvedForecast · ~2030enables
- Robot kitchens in big chainsForecast · ~2030enables
- Autonomous surgical robotsForecast · ~2031enables
- Rescue robotsForecast · ~2032enables
- Deployable flood barriersForecast · ~2035enables
- City-scale vertical farmsForecast · ~2045enables
- Fully autonomous supply chainsForecast · ~2045requires
- Autonomous peacekeepingForecast · ~2055requires
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.