NOBODY IN THAT CROWD ASKED WHAT THE ROBOT COST
They asked if it could shoot a jumper. They asked what it was wearing. Somebody asked it to throw a peace sign and it did, and the whole group laughed like a person had done it.
Not one of them asked what it does for a living.
That's the part worth noticing. Every robot company on earth is optimising hands and gait and payload, and the thing that actually moved that crowd was two seconds of small talk. Nobody was checking whether it could lift a crate.
Then at 0:50 it's behind a bar, pouring a drink.
That's the business. Not the factory version everyone argues about, the one where a machine stands in a room full of people and makes them want to stay near it. Bars, launches, storefronts, brand events. Footfall is the product and the robot is the reason they walk over.
A humanoid that lifts things competes with a forklift on price. A humanoid people want to talk to competes with a marketing budget, and those are very different numbers.
I wrote the whole breakdown in the article below, what one of these actually costs today and where the money in this is really moving.