Humanoids, How Far To Go_

Robotaxis now give half a million paid rides a week. The best-known humanoid robot factory trial ran for about 1,250 hours. Self-driving cars took about 20 years to get from a desert race to a paid ride, so what will it take for humanoids?

We look at the three gates cars had to get through (a narrow enough problem, proof of safety, and a falling price) and score humanoid robots on each one.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Half a million rides vs 1,250 hours
1:16 Act 1 · The car's head start: from the DARPA desert race to Waymo
3:29 Why driving is a narrow problem, and humanoids aren't
4:53 Data: 270 million miles vs a million robot demos
6:01 Gate 1: one job, one place
7:06 Act 2 · Safe enough to stand next to
8:15 The old rule: keep people out
10:03 How robotaxis earned trust, and how Cruise lost it
11:58 Certifying a robot run by AI
13:15 Safety is already a legal fight
14:08 Act 3 · Cheap enough to buy: the lidar lesson
15:07 What a humanoid is made of
15:54 China, Unitree and who's actually buying
17:43 Home robots and renting Digit
19:11 The banks' forecasts
19:35 Scorecard: where humanoids stand
20:42 So how long?

Company figures are the companies' own claims and are not GAAP unless stated. Forecasts are bank estimates, not facts. The lawsuit against Figure AI is ongoing; Figure denies the claims.

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