Chris Paxton sides with 1X's Bernt Børnich: generalist robots will win despite niche demand
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-10-28
NAVER Labs researcher Chris Paxton says he fundamentally agrees with 1X CEO Bernt Børnich on the value of humanoids: single-purpose robots will keep thriving and there are many non-humanoid paths to general-purpose hardware, but he has "no doubt" generalist robots will win in many areas. Børnich marveled that people celebrate generality in LLMs yet keep demanding specialized robots.
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