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Figure AI’s BotQ humanoid robot is an investor demo, not a product (pivot-to-ai.com)
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https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250801-botqs-humanoid-robot-is-an-investor-demo-not-a-product - podcast
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[–] HedyL@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

the reason is they’re selling sci fi dreams of robot servants even though these dreams are lies.

We've seen the same with chatbots, I guess. Objectively speaking, they perform worse at most tasks than regular search engines, databases, dedicated machine learning-based tools etc. However, they sound humanoid (like overly sycophantic human office workers, to be more precise), thus the hype.