The world is just not quite ready for humanoids yet
Famed roboticist and iRobot founder Rodney Brooks has sounded the alarm on a humanoid robot investment bubble. He’s not the only one. In a recent essay, Brooks calls out the billions of venture dollars being poured into humanoid robot companies like Figure. His take: despite the amount of money being injected into the industry, humanoids won’t be able to learn dexterity — or the fine motor movements with hands– rendering them essentially useless. His take might surprise some, especially those VCs investing in the sector. But not to the multiple robotics-focused VCs and AI scientists, who have told TechCrunch in recent months that they don’t expect to see wide adoption of humanoid robots for at least a few years — if not more than a decade. The issues Fady Saad, a…
