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Stop Building Better Humanoids: Why the Next Robot May Be the Room Itself!

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For the past few years, robotics has been obsessed with a seductive idea: build a bipedal, metal-jointed humanoid, give it vision, language, and enough compute, then ask it to survive the chaos of a human home. It is an extraordinary engineering challenge. But it may also be the wrong abstraction.…

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  1. 2026-10-17 17:36 · DEV Community — AI
    Stop Building Better Humanoids: Why the Next Robot May Be the Room Itself!

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