Humanoid robots will change the world via boring factory tasks, not backflips
nikola_mr64990 · x · 2026-10-27
A robotics thread argues that humanoid robots don't need flashy backflips to change the world — the real milestone is correctly repeating the same boring factory task thousands of times. The author frames reliability, not athletic demos, as where robotics is getting interesting, echoing the industry shift from demo videos to industrial deployment.
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