Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2
Brett Adcock, founder of Figure AI, argues that general-purpose humanoid robots are viable today due to breakthroughs in electric actuators and deep learning, dismissing the notion that China leads in robotics capabilitysummaryHumanoid robots are currently fully autonomous and commercially deployed (e.g., with BMW) using onboard compute, eliminating the need for constant cloud connectivity for motor control.takeaway“I just don't believe this [that China is far ahead]. The problem right now is solving a general purpose humanoid robot... China makes a million humanoid robots tomorrow. They just don't work very well.”quote














