What would it take for a humanoid to pass a real Turing-adjacent physical test?

[scott.novikova7]

@yuki71 +1 to this. Worth adding: '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.' This whole thread is a good reminder how young this field still is.

[erik_novi]

Speaking from personal experience here, The safety case for humanoids working near people usually leans on compliant/backdrivable joints plus soft force limits, but there isn't yet a mature, widely-adopted standard equivalent to what industrial arms have had for decades. Automotive plants ended up as the first serious proving ground for humanoids mostly because they already have structured environments, safety processes, and budget for automation - not because car assembly is uniquely suited to bipeds.