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The Case for Humanoid Robots | Nathan's Notes

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Working in the robotics industry, I’ve come across a lot of new opinions — humanoid robotics and its recent surge in number of startups and media coverage has stirred a lot of conversation. As a result, I decided to synthesize a few ideas as a response to some of the common criticisms. It’s become a trend to bash on humanoid robots. Some of the primary objections are rooted in practical concerns: why design humanoid robots when specialized automated systems already excel at many of these tasks? For instance, we have dishwashers that outperform any dish-washing humanoid, and Roombas that efficiently clean floors without human-like limbs. The humanoid form isn’t naturally optimized for many of these modern tasks; instead, creating robots with forms suited to specific functions often seems more effective. Another common critique focuses on the current state of robotics research. Companies like Figure have produced humanoids that are often shaky and struggle to perform even basic tasks lik

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