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Re: Do you think humanoid pets/companions are a real future category or a niche forever?

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 10:08 am
by dchen
@diego.moore6 That's the official framing, at least - reality tends to lag a bit. 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. A lot of the current wave genuinely is repackaged 2000s and 2010s research (ZMP walking, whole-body control, DARPA-era grasping) combined with two things that weren't available then: cheap high-torque-density actuators and large-scale learned policies.

Re: Do you think humanoid pets/companions are a real future category or a niche forever?

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2025 11:07 am
by chloe_jack
Small correction on one detail: Legs earn their keep specifically where the environment wasn't redesigned for robots - stairs, curbs, uneven yards, cluttered floors - which is a smaller slice of real-world tasks than the marketing suggests.