"No humanoid robot is being built by humanoids" — Matthew Chang's paradox
MatthewChang · x · 2026-11-11
On the There Forge podcast (EP033), Matthew Chang offered a striking observation: not a single humanoid robot in the world is currently being built by humanoid robots. "The humanoids can't build humanoids" — highlighting the circular paradox of embodied AI, where the robotics industry still depends entirely on human labor, and self-replicating automation remains far off.
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