But those robots will be long gone and mostly conveniently forgotten.”His blog post kicked off a furore in the small world of robotics. The humanoid arms raceThe physical appearance of a robot, Brooks likes to say, makes a promise about what it can do. Still, even by the turn of the century, humanoid robots were unready for commercialisation. It developed two robots, Baxter and Sawyer, designed to do industrial work but safe enough for humans to work alongside. Humans don’t have a language for gathering, storing and communicating data about touch, the way we do for language and imagery.

Source: The Star December 20, 2025 04:05 UTC