Why is 'humanoid' even the right form factor?

[erik_novi]

@williams84 Worth being a little skeptical of the marketing angle here. 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.

[deborahperez]

New to this, so forgive me if this is obvious - Most flashy demo reels involve some amount of teleoperation, scripted sequencing, or cherry-picked takes - that's not necessarily dishonest, but it does mean the gap between 'demoed' and 'reliably autonomous in production' is still large.

[kwilliams]

@deborahperez Ran into exactly this myself. Most flashy demo reels involve some amount of teleoperation, scripted sequencing, or cherry-picked takes - that's not necessarily dishonest, but it does mean the gap between 'demoed' and 'reliably autonomous in production' is still large. Kind of makes me think about how different this all looked even three years ago.