Two bipeds leave the blocks on a blue indoor track, and the race ends against the pad with smoke still coming off the shells.
They start side by side under lane markers 2 and 4, a blue cart between them, staff along the boards. The left unit is white and black with a small head light. The right one is a thinner silver frame. Both step off together. Within a second the left unit is already in a full stride, back leg stretched, arms out for balance, while the other is still finding the lane.
The camera stays with the faster one. The gait is a long reach, one foot barely down before the other is already forward, a green light on the torso as it takes the curve.
Seats behind the rail are only partly filled. People film from the lower rows. A scoreboard sits on the far bend, and a line of drums in red stands past the infield, which tells you this is a staged meet, not a closed test.
Then the straight runs out. The lead unit hits the blue padded wall at the end of the bend and folds. The second one comes in behind it and goes into the same pad. Both stay down. Pieces sit on the lane. A thin trail of smoke rises off the nearer shell, and the crowd leans over the rail with phones up.
Staff in red vests come in with extinguishers. One sprays, then a second, then a third person in dark clothes joins them. The powder covers the wreck and the lane around it. Neither unit gets back up in the clip.
The start is the part that looks finished. The stop is the part that is still a crash into a wall that was always there. A biped can hold a sprint down a marked lane. It does not, in these frames, hold the corner once the pad is the thing in front of it.
This evening, I scrolled through BoneOhio's feed on Polymarket. I had about $336,662 in my account, and I was curious where it came from. Let me clarify right away: this is my reading of the trades; I don't know what the bot's author thinks.
He trades 5- and 15-minute crypto Up/Down periods. Judging by the trades, it looks like he locks in a pivot price at the start of the window and then circles around it. He's clearly monitoring Chainlink TWAP, its deviation from the pivot, the remaining time, and, judging by the entries, fast spot and perp prices.
The picture is unclear for now, and he's taking small orders. The first purchase is at the median around 91ยข, the last around 99ยข. Median, not average, if anyone's comparing.
The bulk of the volume is at 98-99ยข. He enters there when TWAP is almost unable to return above the pivot.
One such trade yields pennies; the profit is determined by the number of trades. But a 99ยข miss costs almost the entire bet, and it's impossible to tell from the feed alone how many such misses he's had. That's what I'd look at first.
THE MOST EXPENSIVE PART OF A HUMANOID MIGHT END UP BEING ITS FACE.
Not the motors.
Not the battery.
The part that makes a machine feel familiar enough for people to accept it.
This is especially interesting in Japan, where service robotics is already becoming a serious business.
The countryโs service-robot market is projected to reach about ยฅ400 billion ($2.7B) by 2030.
And the bigger humanoid market is moving fast too.
Goldman Sachs projects 1.4 million humanoid shipments annually by 2035, with a potential $38 billion global market.
At that scale, appearance stops being decoration.
Different faces, voices, hairstyles and personalities could become product features.
The same hardware underneath.
Completely different machine on the outside.
That creates something closer to a consumer electronics market than traditional industrial robotics.
The robot itself may be a one-time purchase.
But its identity could become the part people keep paying for
~...HE
Said To
โขโHER
Your
Eyes
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Voice
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Your
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Stars
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HE Loves
HER Eyes...~
#LOVE