Critic slams humanoid robot engineering culture: a hundred firms building rote-trained "mechanical drones"
generativist · x · 2026-09-17
mattparlmer sharply criticizes the engineering culture around humanoid robots: instead of exploring the vast possibility space of autonomous machines, roughly a hundred companies are building what he calls mechanical drones and teaching them by rote learning.
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