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🔎The humanoids are coming.🤖

The latest demos are exciting and scary at the same time. Some companies are even selling their bots already. These are more toys than task performers. But progress is rapid. iPhone moment soon?

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Rene Bruentrup
Mar 13, 2026
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  • To become commercially viable, humanoids don’t just have to outperform humans. They also have to outperform specialized automation solutions. Humanoids will always be less versatile than a human and less efficient than a specialized machine. But if they get good enough, the versality/efficiency trade-off may become attractive enough to make …

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