Brett Adcock Declares Wheeled Robots an Utter Dead End
adcock_brett · x · 2026-08-02
Figure AI founder Brett Adcock argued that wheeled robots are an utter dead end. He pointed out that humanoids can navigate stairs and ladders, which are ubiquitous in our world, whereas wheeled robots cannot.
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