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The current humanoid hype don't have much substances or key technologies in it, and incumbent industrial robotics companies like FANUC are already in the process of rolling the techniques created for humanoids into their robots. I personally think this is going to be just series of incremental gains for big welding bots, and nursery equipment becoming mildly robotic, like Aperture Science wall panels, than humanoids walking into retirement homes and doing dishes in the future.

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Those were never techniques created for humanoid robots. Google researched using transformers as vision language action models to drive robots back in 2023 on a mobile manipulator and probably did non VLA work even earlier.

This is something people refuse to understand. The shape of the robot changes absolutely nothing about robot intelligence unless it abandons the basic concept of joints and links. Continuum robots are very difficult to control but they are also incredibly niche.

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I really can't shrug off my suspicion since one of Chinese humanoid startups had added few female type body bumps on a robot and the online humanoid hype cluster("but does it do laundry or dishes" types) responded in panic with shared sentiments of defeat, that, those humanoid hype types might be just yearning for HBO Westworld bots, to state it with modesty, not even Data or Marvin who we can share drinks with. The absolute humanoid obsession doesn't make sense to me otherwise. The cookie cutter "humanoids are best poised for leveraging pre-existing human infra" response make close to zero sense otherwise.