Is anyone building non-humanoid robots? Feels like humanoid is limiting the creativity of building a truly useful robot in today's age
That makes them extremely easy to sell to industry. This unlocks, in principle, a large chunk of the potential untapped industrial automation market that still relies on human labor because the ROI of redesigning production lines didn't make sense.
More realistically it seems that llms in several years could help dramatically decrease costs of automation and make it available for more industries
It's easier to redesign the work to be robot-friendly than to deploy a humanoid robot and have it actually work.
Automation has been rolling out for a long while now, and most of the low-hanging fruit of things that can easily be redesigned in a cost-effective way has been dealt with already. The role of these robots is to address all of the stuff that would have been automated by now if they could have.
Humanoid startup execs just don't talk about that.