The real bottleneck in humanoid robots is data, not hardware
ingliguori · x · 2026-09-16
Commentator ingliguori argues humanoid robots' real bottleneck is data, not hardware: unlike LLMs trained on internet text, robots need millions of real-world examples of grasping, navigating, and tool use. Robot gyms, simulation, and teleoperation are becoming critical infrastructure, and the next AI platform moat may belong to whoever owns the best real-world robot dataset.
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