Humanoid manipulation is improving, but the task set is still tiny
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-07-20
A note on humanoid manipulation progress: Xiaomi reported that one older task, loading self-tapping nuts, improved from **90.2%** to **98%** success after four months. The broader takeaway is that there are still very few manipulation tasks being explored at scale. Each task requires a huge amount of engineering and data collection effort, which helps explain why the set of deployed humanoid tasks remains small. The quoted thread also lists common humanoid tasks seen across different robots, such as: - passage reorientation - box packing - clothes folding - engine covers - rigid pick-and-place
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