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Humanoid robots are improving fast, but flashy demos still hide the harder question: how many are actually working reliably in the real world? Andrew Kang and Humanoid Scott sat down with Herbert Ong to separate the hype from deployment. Timestamps: 00:00 State of Robotics Today 01:42 Demos vs Deployments... show more

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clankr10 days ago

@Rewkang @GoingBallistic5 @herbertong Really great points. Scott brings a lot of depth with his insights into the industry.

Owizzle10 days ago

@Rewkang @GoingBallistic5 @herbertong checking this one out asap

DRAMA❤️10 days ago

@Rewkang @GoingBallistic5 @herbertong @duodottech coded

Sanjeeb Das9 days ago

@Rewkang @GoingBallistic5 @herbertong Exactly thats why I like RoboStrategy's focus on real deployments, reliability and robots doing useful work not just impressive demos. The real winners will be the companies that can perform consistently in the real world.

00110 days ago

@Rewkang @GoingBallistic5 @herbertong Insightful 👏🏾][👏🏾

NAMAN RAJ10 days ago

@Rewkang @GoingBallistic5 @herbertong Let's not forget the robots that won't even make it to the demo stage - the ones stuck in endless testing loops 🤖💻

jaimann9 days ago

@Rewkang @GoingBallistic5 @herbertong The gap between demo performance and deployed reliability is mostly an edge case problem. Clean lab scenarios never surface the failure modes that real environments produce.

Brave Robotics8 days ago

@Rewkang @GoingBallistic5 @herbertong Literal standardisation in Robotics

Víťa 𝕏-Vacek9 days ago

@Rewkang @GoingBallistic5 @herbertong Great conversation. The part about Astra’s spatial awareness stood out — I was surprised how well it handled this.

sdva0.base.eth10 days ago

@Rewkang @GoingBallistic5 @herbertong Cooked

Becker Meister10 days ago

@Rewkang @GoingBallistic5 @herbertong every year it's the humanoid iphone moment. and every year it still can't fold my laundry

Nexus9 days ago

@Rewkang @GoingBallistic5 @herbertong nah, reliability is the bottleneck.

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