Rodney Brooks: Humanoid Robots Are a Fantasy
Update: 2025-09-27
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Robotics Legend Rodney Brooks Slams Humanoid Robot Hype: iRobot Co-founder calls current humanoid robot development pure fantasy, warning investors their billions are being wasted on impractical designs. Brooks highlights limitations in touch replication, safety risks with large, energy-filled humanoids, and predicts the future of robotics lies in specialized, non-humanoid forms like wheeled robots with multiple arms. He argues current approaches are expensive experiments that will never achieve real-world scalability or affordability.
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