#humanoid-robots

#humanoid-robots

"Do you see this as, that you'd be selling these to SFPD?" Benioff said. "And saying look, you're down 500 or 1,000. I can offer you robots to do some of these jobs, even if they're not armed or not militaristic. Is that a role that you see them playing in cities?"

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has bet his EV maker on selling millions of humanoid robots, prognosticating earlier this month that the initiative could eventually make up a whopping 80 percent of Tesla's value. He's promised that the company's Optimus robot could generate over $10 trillion in revenue in the long term, orders of magnitude more than the amount of money the carmaker made last year.

Your estimates are about right. However, intelligent robots in humanoid form will far exceed the population of humans, as every person will want their own personal R2-D2 and C-3PO. And then there will be many robots in industry for every human to provide products & services.- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 24, 2025

The kickboxers, pint-sized humanoid robots entered by teams from leading Chinese technological universities, are part of a jamboree of humanoid events taking place at China's latest technology event.

Teleoperation has become a popular approach for collecting data to solve robotic tasks in the context of Physical/Embodied AI. CHILD is one of the solutions we proposed to enable users to provide direct commands via teleoperation for specific target tasks.

...the Linker Hand research version has the world's highest 42 degrees of freedom (DOF), surpassing the 26 of the world's leading product, Shadow Hand. Each finger could independently have up to 7 DOF, which means it has surpassed human fingers.

Fern emphasizes that while capabilities like dancing may capture attention, they fail to illustrate the practical utility of humanoid robots in real-world applications, highlighting the need for more useful benchmarks.