This made me think.. I suspect someday AI will be able to just drop into a piece of commodity hardware and sort itself out and even compensate for shitty hardware a bit.

For instance, if it can't control a hand properly, it'll just run evolutionary algorithm on it for a while, compile the result and upload it into the hand controller and be off in about 4-5s.

1X is different. This is purely a hardware demo, they are doing pure teleop on the software side, no AI in the demo (except maybe RL for walking). 1X's bit thing was always their mechanically compliant safe hardware.

I think you underestimate the hardware challenge. We don’t even have batteries that can power a humanoid for a conveniently long time. And the power to weight ratio of our actuators is enormously worse than humans and other animals. Moore’s Law does not help with these things.