Brin is a skeptic of humanoid robots despite industry hype
Sergey Brin · Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder | All-In Live from Miami · May 20, 2025 · at 13:40
Google co-founder Sergey Brin shares his skepticism about humanoid robot form factors during a live panel at All-In Live in Miami.
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“I'm probably the one weirdo who doesn't, who's not a big fan of humanoids, but maybe I'm jaded because we've, you know, we at least acquired at least two humanoid robotic startups and later sold them. But the reason is, I mean, the reason people want to do humanoid robots for the most part is because the world is kind of designed around this form factor and, you know, you can train on YouTube. We can train on videos. People do all the things. I personally don't think that's given the AI quite enough credit. Like AI can learn, you know, through simulation and through real life pretty quickly how to handle different situations and I don't know that you need exactly the same number of arms and legs and wheels, which is zero in the case of humans as humans to make it all work. And so I'm probably less Bullish on that, but to be fair, there are a lot of really smart people who are making humanoid robots, so I wouldn't discount it.”
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