Are the Humanoids Here to Stay?

Humanoids might finally solve the “brownfield” problem that plagues robotic adaptation, and recent breakthroughs in multi-modal transformers and diffusion models might actually make it happen.

Not a week goes by without a flurry of humanoid companies releasing a new update. Optimus can walk? Digit has just moved an empty tote? So has Figure! It also seems that real companies are finally getting interested. Starting with Tesla, humanoids are now…