Famed roboticist says humanoid robot bubble is doomed to burst

Renowned robotic Rodney Brooks investors have a awakened call for ing Billion In Humanoid Robot Startups: You’re wasting your money.

Brooks, who co-founded Irobot and spent decades in MIT, especially about companies like Tesla and figure, is trying to teach robots skills by showing videos of their activities. In a new articleHe says “authentic fantasy think” of this method.

The problem? Human hands are incredibly sophisticated, packed with about 17,000 special touch receptors that do not match any robots. While the machine learning speech recognition and image processing, those epochs created in the technology for decades for the correct data capture. Brooks mentions, “We do not have this kind of tradition for touch data.”

Then there is protection. Full -sized walking humanoid robots pump a lot of energy to stay straight. When they fall, they are dangerous. Physics means twice the size of today’s models, a robot will pack eight times the harmful energy.

Brooks predicts that in 15 years, successful “humanoid” robots will actually have wheels, multiple weapons and specialized sensors and will leave the human form. Meanwhile, he is fully confirmed that today’s billionaire training tests are financing for examination, which will never increase the huge production.