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s08148692 51 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence t...

We have Google, Figure, Tesla, Boston Dynamics, and literally dozens of Chinese companies building humanoid robots and making huge improvements in the tech. Not there yet by any means as a general-purpose home assistant, but I don't think it will be too surprising if at least one of them succeeds

chrsw 51 days ago [–]

It will take a while before humanoids become useful. You can speed it up with extreme amounts of investment but it still wouldn’t be soon.

micromacrofoot 51 days ago | [–]

I'd say 10 years before they're a luxury item, if you look at what has progressed in the past 10 years it's been massive

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