Chris Paxton: it's not omni embodiment, it's the hands — right hands in the right place
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-09-16
Robotics researcher Chris Paxton pushes back on the "omni embodiment" framing: these systems are still one embodiment — the hands. His takeaway: "all you need are the right hands in the right place," a view Stanford's Jay Li endorsed while resharing.
The point is relevant to the embodied AI route debate: rather than chasing full humanoid generality, focus on dexterous hands as a single embodiment reused across many settings.
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