Benjie’s Humanoid Olympic Games
Benjie’s Humanoid Olympic GamesA gauntlet thrownBenjie HolsonSep 08, 20252222ShareI was kinda disappointed by the World Humanoid Robot Games.1 As fun as real-life rock-em-sock-em robots is, what people really care about is robots doing their chores. This is why robot laundry folding videos are so popular. Those laundry videos are super impressive: we didn’t know how to do that even a few years ago. And it is certainly something that people want! But as this article so nicely articulates, basic laundry folding is in a sweet spot given the techniques we have now. It might feel like if our AI techniques can fold laundry maybe they can do anything, but that isn’t true, and we’re going to have to invent new techniques to be really general purpose and useful.The ChallengeWith that in mind…
