But are they really working? The demos we get to see are neither as exciting as Boston Dynamics’ Atlas doing parkour, nor humanoids seem to be very productive. So is the market rightfully excited and are humanoids up to something? I’m excited about humanoids for two reasons:
1) Humanoids might finally solve the “Brownfield” problem, the main reason so many robots solutions burn in pilot purgatory.
2) Machine learning has made a huge leap in 2023, with computers exhibiting reasoning skills that — for the first time — allow them to operate in open-world settings and perform contact richt…