How close are we really to a humanoid in every home?

[dchen]

@ethan_fisc I'd take that specific number with a grain of salt, honestly. The 'humanoid' form factor mostly wins on infrastructure compatibility, not raw efficiency - stairs, doors, and tools were all built for a human body plan, so a legged, two-armed robot slots into existing spaces without retrofitting them.

[sarah.santos3]

@dchen Appreciate the detailed answer. A genuinely underrated bottleneck is neither hardware nor pure ML - it's the unglamorous integration work of making perception, planning, and control agree with each other reliably for eight-hour shifts. This whole thread is a good reminder how young this field still is.

[olga_lind]

@sarah.santos3 Related question - 'General purpose' in 2026 mostly means 'can be reprogrammed for a new task without new hardware,' not 'can walk into any environment and figure things out unsupervised.'