Humanoid Bodies Are Impressive, Brains Are the Bottleneck — Spirit AI Bets on 2027
TansuYegen · x · 2026-09-21
Humanoid robots already have impressive bodies; the bottleneck is their brains, writes Tansu Yegen. Spirit AI believes that could change by 2027: if robots reach the point where you simply explain a physical task and they figure out execution, the economic impact could far exceed another generation of chatbots.
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