humanoid robots
also referred to as: humanoid robot
13 statements across 11 episodes · 5 bullish · 6 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Dec 11, 2024 by Jordi Hays · across every show →
Everything said about humanoid robots, oldest first
Dec 11, 2024 bullish
Hays: Firearms industry will benefit from humanoid robotics proliferation
“I weirdly think the firearms industry is going to benefit a lot from the robotics movement, because in a world where humanoid robots walk the earth, and if you are a criminal, and you can now, from the comfort of your own home, use humanoid robots to commit cr…”
Dec 17, 2024 bullish
Hays: Everyone will eventually have personal errand drones and domestic robots
“I expect like everybody will have a drone, right? That like goes and picks up like, oh, I want this drink from the grocery store. Like go grab it for me. Everybody has like their little leaf picker. Everybody has like a humanoid robot around the house, or mayb…”
Jan 7, 2025 positive
Feb 28, 2025 bearish
Petersen: Humanoid Robots Face Very High Bar to Replace Warehouse Labor
“Bar for them to clear is so high, too. I mean, workers are very, like, on an IQ basis, like, they're pretty smart. They got amazing dexterity in their fingers. They run around. ... They're not that expensive. Like, there's a lot. That bar is gonna be really hi…”
Mar 5, 2025 neutral
Apr 26, 2025 bearish
Farid: Moving heavy loads at speed is physically impractical for humanoid robots
“If you're picking up a 50 pound box with one of those robots, like it's very likely to tip over pretty easily. Like you need, and if you want to move at any kind of speed, right? Because if you take a 50 pound box and you move it at, you know, five miles an ho…”
Apr 26, 2025 bearish
Farid: Humanoids Face Severe Maintenance Hurdles Due to Having 30 to 50 Motors
“Like a six axis robot has six motors a humanoid, most of these humans that we've seen have something like 30 to 50 motors, right? And so just, you're just talking about like the wear on the motor, we have to go out and lubricate these joints and replace motors…”
Apr 26, 2025 positive
Mehr: Industrial robots surpass human kinematics; intelligence is the real bottleneck
“We have kinematic frameworks for a long time. You know, we could do what humans does in terms of kinematic freedom with industrial robots. We can actually do it more precisely with higher force with industrial robots, which was what we need in manufacturing se…”
Apr 26, 2025 bearish
Nov 19, 2025 positive
Feb 12, 2026 neutral
Mar 13, 2026 bearish
Specialized Wheeled Robots Vastly Outperform Humanoids in Industrial Applications
“Because if you're gonna do specialized robots, not humanoids, but specialized robots, They need to have wheels. Right? I like to say, like, if you saw the Beijing, in Beijing, they had the humanoid Olympics. And the half marathon, and you're watching the human…”