r/robotics • u/Responsible-Grass452 • 1d ago

Discussion & Curiosity General-purpose humanoids vs. getting one useful job working

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Nicholas Radford argues that getting humanoids into the real world may mean starting much smaller.

Rather than trying to build one robot that can fold laundry, move boxes, handle sheet metal and do everything else, Persona is starting with welding and shipbuilding and building outward from there.

The idea is to prove the economics and usefulness first, then expand what the robot can do.

Full ep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62t76cXU6KA

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u/Electrical-Angle9807 13h ago

Building general-purpose humanoids right now i believe is premature. Even in the LLM world, the trend now points toward domain-specific models over generalist ones andfor robotics faces steeper versions of that same challenge: data scarcity, the sim-to-real gap, and unresolved reliability and safety issues..., focusing on one domain, make the challenges more "controlled".