Burkov: a humanoid robot that can't do this with its hands is useless
burkov · x · 2026-10-08
Andriy Burkov, author of The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book, shared a humanoid robot dexterous-hand demo and declared that any humanoid robot unable to perform such manipulation with its robotic hands is useless for anything except gathering dust.
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