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Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot

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392 points lairv | 1 comments | 09 Oct 25 13:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.287s | source
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ryukoposting ◴[10 Oct 25 00:13 UTC] No.45534324[source]▶
Humanoids are Silicon Valley's horseless carriage. The purpose of robotics, and tools in general, is to do things better than we can given our human form and cognition. Tools take on forms that are optimized for their intended purpose. A humanoid has no market fit because it's necessarily bounded by most of the same limits we have.
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1. troyastorino ◴[10 Oct 25 00:21 UTC] No.45534364[source]▶
The point of a humaniod is compatibility with systems that have been built for humans, which is...nearly all systems that have been built. Environments and tools that exist in the world are ones that have been built for humans, so for a single robot to be able to interact with almost all of those, that robot needs to be shaped like a human.