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Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity – Rodney Brooks

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In this post I explain why today’s humanoid robots will not learn how to be dexterous despite the hundreds of millions, or perhaps many billions of dollars, being donated by VCs and major tech companies to pay for their training. At the end of the post, after I have completed my argument on this point, I have included two more short pieces. The first is on the problems still to be solved for two legged humanoid robots to be safe for humans to be near them when they walk. The second is how we will have plenty of humanoid robots fifteen years from now, but they will look like neither today’s humanoid robots nor humans. [[My side commentaries look like this.]] Artificial Intelligence researchers have been trying to get robot arms and hands to carry out manipulation of objects for over 65 years; since just a few years after the term Artificial Intelligence first appeared in a proposal for a 1956 “Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence”. By 1961 Heinrich Ernst had prod

In this post I explain why today’s humanoid robots will not learn how to be dexterous despite the hundreds of millions, or perhaps many billions of dollars, being donated by VCs and major tech companies to pay for their training. At the end of the post, after I have completed my argument on this point, I have included two more short pieces. The first is on the problems still to be solved for two legged humanoid robots to be safe for humans to be near them when they walk. The second is how we will have plenty of humanoid robots fifteen years from now, but they will look like neither today

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