Humanoid robots are only hyped because GenAI is hyped and GenAI is hyped because Altman and his other conmen are scamming the World out of resources on the promise of AGI because “Scale Is All You Need”, a very convenient trope for VCs as they have no other idea beside dominating a market by scaling.
So… if the GenAI bubble does pop (and the HBR article on workslop lets me hope that it has started) then I don’t see how humanoid robot would not. I also imagine manufacturers are less prone to hype because they have been robots already for decades. Even some services like hospitals do have robots for cleaning, delivery, etc. Sure they don’t look humanoid but it’s still a baseline to compare with in terms of performance and price.
Edit: if you want to explore the OSHW FLOSS side of this check https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot but my own understanding is that there is no radical progress. Sure we might be inching away at “solving” robotics but nothing changed except few components getting a bit cheaper thanks to smartphone then in turn drone or obviously GPUs.
Edit2: if you don’t feel like reading the article just watch the 2 videos by Roland Johansson on normal hand vs hand without touch, it’s fascinating.
Humanoid robots are only hyped because GenAI is hyped and GenAI is hyped because Altman and his other conmen are scamming the World out of resources on the promise of AGI because “Scale Is All You Need”, a very convenient trope for VCs as they have no other idea beside dominating a market by scaling.
So… if the GenAI bubble does pop (and the HBR article on workslop lets me hope that it has started) then I don’t see how humanoid robot would not. I also imagine manufacturers are less prone to hype because they have been robots already for decades. Even some services like hospitals do have robots for cleaning, delivery, etc. Sure they don’t look humanoid but it’s still a baseline to compare with in terms of performance and price.
Edit: if you want to explore the OSHW FLOSS side of this check https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot but my own understanding is that there is no radical progress. Sure we might be inching away at “solving” robotics but nothing changed except few components getting a bit cheaper thanks to smartphone then in turn drone or obviously GPUs.
Edit2: if you don’t feel like reading the article just watch the 2 videos by Roland Johansson on normal hand vs hand without touch, it’s fascinating.