humanoid robots

also referred to as: humanoid robot

7 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 5, 2025 by Brett Adcock · across every show →

Everything said about humanoid robots, oldest first

Nov 5, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Adcock: AI Hardware and Humanoids Will Replace Phones and Computers
“Yes. Every phone and computer was built pre-AI. The, All the hardware we have today in the world needs to be completely rebuilt from scratch.”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 31:05 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Adcock: Humanoids will combine off-board cloud brains with fast on-board models
“I think you will certainly have off board reasoning. I think you will have, I think you'll have both. I think you'll have off-board, like, a big brain off-board that you need to talk to that can do very complex maybe planning and reasoning. You'll have on-boar…”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 35:31 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Adcock: Figure robots do not have facial expressions or human-like features
“Our view right now is that we are trying to go out and do useful work. We're not trying to fool another human that we're a human from, like, a entertainment perspective or maybe companion perspective. So we've not designed the robot with, like, facial expressi…”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 43:23 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Adcock: Humanoid robots are far less energy-efficient than biological humans
“Today we're like far, like less efficient than a human. Humans are like the, are, we are like extremely efficient. Like, our, you know, biological neural nets are really efficient. The way, the, how much energy, or how much power we use to exert, like, walking…”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 22:32 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Adcock: I Won't Let Figure Robots Roam Unsupervised Around My Kids
“I've had a robot in my house now for like a few months. And You know, my kids have been there, but we, like, we monitor the robot. So we're not, like, we're not, like, we're, like, we have somebody with the robot. Like, we're not letting the kids go up and hug…”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 42:15 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Adcock: Robot costs will drop dramatically over the next five years
“You'll have this dramatic reduction here over the next, like, five years as we approach higher volume manufacturing, and then you'll have another step down once robots can fully build robots in the loop together, and you remove all human labor from the whole m…”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 1:30:01 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Adcock: Figure AI Aims to Replicate All Physical Human Capabilities
“And the goal here, it figures to be able to do everything a human can in the physical world.”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 3:37 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
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