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.
