Semiconductor insiders at SEMICON are blunt: "humanoids are stupid"
bookwormengr · x · 2026-09-05
Reporting from #SEMICON2026, the author notes that people in the semiconductor industry dislike humanoid robots. In the words of one exhibitor: "humanoids are stupid." A notable cold-water take on the embodied-AI hype coming from the chip manufacturing ecosystem.
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