Researcher Chris Paxton: General-Purpose Humanoids Will Ultimately Win

Chris Paxton, a researcher at NAVER Labs and Anthropic, echoed 1X founder Bernt Børnich's view that humanoid robots will ultimately win: the long tail of tasks is too long for purpose-built machines, though specialized robots will persist.

2026-10-28 ~ 2026-10-28 · 3 related posts

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