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by kakacik 29 days ago
musk does it, so it must be good (TM), or something about cargo culting
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I generally don't like the phrase cargo culting, but building a humanoid robot is probably the ultimate form of cargo culting.

The idea is this: You build a robot in the shape of a human with the hope that by building the robot well enough in the image of humans, it will become sentient and intelligent on its own.

That is literally the pitch of every single humanoid robot company on the planet.