Why the humanoid workforce is running late

But Russian and many others I talked to at EXPO suggest that this hype just doesn’t add up.

Humanoids “are generally not intelligent,” she said. The Russian showed a video of himself speaking with an advanced humanoid that smoothly followed her instruction to pick up a watering can and glued to a nearby plant. It was impressive. But when she asked her to “water” her friend, the robot did not think that people did not need watering like plants and moved to put out a person. “These robots lack common sense,” she said.

I also spoke with Prague Velagapudi, the main technological official of Agility Robotics, who described in detail the physical limitations the company had to overcome. In order to be strong, the humanoid needs a lot of power and a great battery. The stronger it is and the harder it is, the less time it is without filling, and more you have to worry about for safety. This robot is also complex to production.

Some impressive humanoid demos does not prevail these fundamental limitations as much as they show other impressive features: for example, rotating robotic hands or the ability to talk to people through a large linguistic model. But these options do not necessarily have to be good in the jobs that humanoids should take over (it is more useful to program a long list of detailed instructions that the robot follows, for example, than it says, for example).

This does not mean that the fleet of humanoids will never join our workplaces, but that the adoption of technology is likely to be drawn, specific to industry and slow. Is related to what I wrote Last week: People who consider AI “normal” technology, not utopian or dystopian, all that makes sense. The technology that succeeds in an isolated laboratory environment will seem very different from the one that is commercially adopted on the scale.

All this sets the scene for what happened to one of the biggest robotics names last week. The image AI has collected a huge amount of investment for its Humanoidsand founder Brett Adcock claimed X In March that the company was “the most sought after private stock in the secondary market.” His most vocal work with BMW and Adcock showed videos From the figures of robots working to move the parts for a car manufacturer, saying that the partnership only needed 12 months to start. Adcock and the character are in general He didn’t answer On media demands and do not make rounds at typical robot fairs.

In April, Wealth Published an article Quoting a BMW spokesman, stating that the partnership of the couple includes fewer robots on a smaller range than the figure implied. 25. April Adcock published To Linkedin that “A counselor for litigation will aggressively follow all available remedies – including, but not limiting to defamation requirements – to correct the sharp misinterpretations of the publication.” Author Wealth The article did not respond to my comment request, and the representative for Adcock and the figure refused to say which parts of the article are incorrect. The representative pointed me to Adcock’s statement, which misses the details.