Why robots don’t need human shapes, according to one AI hardware take
VraserX · x · 2026-07-26
The post argues that asking why robots should be human-shaped is the wrong question.
Its point is that we already spent centuries making the world human-shaped—doors, stairs, tools, and factories—so the better question is why civilization should be rebuilt around specialized machines.
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