Robots
The robots are doing backflips . The robots are forming their hands into fists. They’re grasping pencils and writing. They’re packing boxes and moving things from one place to another. They’re folding laundry, doing dishes, and organizing rooms. They’re doing kung fu and dancing about as awkwardly as a teenage boy at a middle school dance. While we’re nowhere near these machines looking like Sophie Thatcher in Companion , more and more, they are taking our shape, moving the way we do and performing our actions. And with AI further nurturing expectations, humanoids have become one of the most sought-after form factors among roboticists and AI builders. But with non-humanoid systems already deployed everywhere from food delivery to warehouses to hospitals, you might be asking yourself the same question I keep circling back to: Why do robots need to have two legs, two arms and a head? What is the point of makin...
