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A front-row seat to AI, tech and the weird future we’re building

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THE REAL HUMANOID REVOLUTION MAY START WITH YOUR FREE TIME.

Figure’s Helix 02 is shown moving through an ordinary home, picking up scattered objects, handling a basket, navigating around furniture and cleaning up the space without the environment being redesigned around it.

That sounds simple until you count how much of our lives disappear into simple tasks.

Laundry. Dishes. Cleaning. Carrying things. Putting everything back where it belongs.

Even one hour saved per day is 365 hours a year returned to you.

That’s the version of humanoid robotics I find most exciting: not replacing what makes us human, but removing the repetitive work that consumes our time.

More time for family.
More time to create.
More time to actually live.

If you had a humanoid at home tomorrow, what would be the FIRST thing you’d make it do?

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

15 feet up. 15 feet down. Fully autonomous

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@HuntersLaptopXX good joke

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THE ROBOT WALKED SO HUMAN THEY HAD TO CUT IT OPEN.

XPENG’s IRON moved across the stage with such natural balance and body motion that the demonstration ended with its leg being opened up to show the machinery underneath.

But the bigger story isn’t how human it looks.

It’s why humanoids need to move like us in the first place.

Our entire world was designed around the human body: stairs, doors, tools, vehicles, hospital corridors, warehouses, homes.

The closer a robot gets to human-level balance and coordination, the more useful it becomes without rebuilding that world around the machine.

That means carrying heavy loads, assisting elderly people, entering disaster zones, inspecting dangerous environments, or handling exhausting physical work alongside humans.

We shouldn’t be trying to create a mechanical human for the novelty of it.

We should be building a machine capable of going wherever humans can go especially when sending a human there would be dangerous.

[genius @A19genius]

https://t.co/l1m6TVf7Hf

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@keqiangxu611 Before we send humanoids into space, they need to prove they can reliably handle Earth’s toughest environments. Step by step, those tests can get closer to the conditions they’ll eventually face beyond our planet.

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SENDING HUMANOIDS TO SPACE IS EASY. MAKING SURE THEY DON’T BECOME DEAD SHELLS IS THE HARD PART.

The idea of using humanoids in space isn’t new.

The real challenge is testing them for what actually waits there: radiation, extreme temperatures, low gravity, dust, long communication delays, hardware failures and months without human maintenance.

Without brutal real-world testing, a $100,000 robot on Mars is just an expensive dead shell.

If humanoids are meant to explore space, the deep ocean and other environments humans can’t safely reach, we should spend less time showing what they can do on Earth and more time proving they can survive where we actually need them.

[Shredder @Shred_0x]

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@Encorezzzzzz Humanity seems split between those building humanoids for entertainment and those trying to turn them into genuinely useful tools. The real progress will come when more focus shifts to the second group.

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@ecomarketlz That’s a great solution. People should focus on work that requires more attention, care, judgment, and creativity, while robots handle the heavy repetitive tasks.

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IF HUMANOIDS MAKE HUMANS UNEMPLOYED, WE BUILT THEM WRONG.

The real question isn’t whether a robot can do a human job.

It’s which jobs we should actually want robots to take.

Let them lift the weight that destroys backs.
Send them into fires, floods and collapsed buildings before rescuers.
Put them in fields under brutal heat, on dangerous construction sites, or on repetitive factory tasks that wear people down.

Humans should keep the work that needs judgment, creativity, empathy and responsibility.

Humanoids were never supposed to make human life less valuable.

They should make it safer, easier and longer.

So maybe the future isn’t “human vs. robot” at all.

The real win is a world where robots lose the easy jobs and humans lose the dangerous ones.

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

We loved Figure 02, it was a workhorse. We're out of room at HQ. It has to go

It deserves a proper sendoff. Any ideas?

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STOP TEACHING ROBOTS TO IMPRESS US. TEACH THEM TO PROTECT US.

While the internet treats humanoids like a new toy making them dance, box and perform tricks this is much closer to what the technology should become.

Let them carry heavy freight for hours.
Send them into collapsed buildings after earthquakes.
Use them around wildfires, floods and landslides before risking rescue crews.
Put them in fields doing exhausting work under brutal conditions.

The goal shouldn’t be building robots that prove they can do everything humans can.

It should be building robots that take the weight, danger and repetition humans shouldn’t have to endure.

Once humanoids become reliable enough, the most important question won’t be:

“What can this robot do?”

It’ll be:

“What human no longer has to risk their body doing it?”

[Oracul @0xOracul]

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@sir4K_zen Exactly. Let robots handle the repetitive grind while humans focus on creativity, judgment, and the things that actually need a human touch.

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THE FUTURE OF WORK SHOULDN’T BE HUMANS VS. ROBOTS.

This humanoid is working inside a real clothing factory, using the same kind of sewing equipment and workspace built for people.

That’s where the technology gets interesting.

Garment production is full of repetitive motions that workers perform thousands of times per shift handling fabric, positioning pieces, feeding machines, sorting and repeating the same movements for hours.

Humanoids can take over the most exhausting parts while people focus on quality, design, supervision and decisions that actually need human judgment.

The goal shouldn’t be to remove people from factories.

It should be to remove the work that slowly wears people down.

The best version of automation isn’t fewer humans.

It’s humans doing more human work.

[Techniahqrobot | humanoid robots @techniahqrobot]

China is not playing around.

Booster Robotics autonomous robot formation at the World Humanoid Robot Games.

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#WorldHumanoidRobotGames BoosterRobotics EmbodiedAI

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@crytonbuton That’s the real question. If humanoids eliminate thousands of hours of repetitive work, the value shouldn’t be measured only in profit — it should also mean more time, freedom and better living standards for people.

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@Matthewwa25 The goal shouldn’t be to keep humans working just for the sake of work. If automation can produce more food, clothing, housing and basic necessities with less human labor, that should mean a better quality of life for everyone not just bigger profits for a few.

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@spreadik Sure.. humanoids shouldn’t replace people they should go where sending a human could cost a life.

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THE BEST PLACE FOR A HUMANOID IS WHERE WE’D NEVER WANT TO SEND A HUMAN.

Today we watch robots learn balance, recovery and coordinated movement.

Tomorrow, those same skills could matter after an earthquake, wildfire, flood or landslide.

Imagine humanoids walking through unstable rubble while aftershocks are still happening, entering smoke-filled buildings, crossing flooded streets, checking for gas leaks, carrying medical supplies or searching for survivors while rescue teams stay outside the danger zone.

Natural disasters create exactly the environments humans struggle with most: heat, toxic air, darkness, unstable ground and exhaustion.

Robots don’t need to replace rescuers.

They can become the first ones we send in mapping the danger, finding people and making the path safer for everyone who follows.

The real breakthrough won’t be a robot that moves like a human.

It’ll be one that can go where a human shouldn’t have to.

[0xForge @0xForge]

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@Randall25210405 Yeah.. Humans shouldn’t have to compete with humanoids we should use them as tools that make our work safer, easier, and more efficient.

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THE BEST USE OF A HUMANOID? LET IT TAKE THE RISK FIRST.

This robot walking alongside officers looks futuristic but the real idea behind it is surprisingly human.

Imagine sending machines into the places we currently send people first:

A burning building.
A chemical leak.
A collapsed structure.
A suspicious package.
A dangerous confrontation.

Humanoids can see, carry, inspect, communicate and operate in spaces already designed for us without putting a heartbeat on the line.

That’s where robotics becomes much bigger than convenience or productivity.

The goal isn’t to build machines that replace people.

It’s to build machines we can send into situations where we desperately want the person to come back alive.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

“We're headed for a future of amazing abundance. Robots will make so many robots that they will saturate all human needs. You won’t even be able to think of something to ask a robot for. There will be an abundance of goods and services, and more robots than people.”

— Elon Musk

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@Caarat1 Exactly. Used the right way, humanoids shouldn’t mean fewer jobs for people. They should be tools that assist us, handle the dangerous parts, and make human work safer and easier.

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@Elpoeta_pastor I hope our future will be better🙄

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THE FIRST ROBOT YOU’LL ACTUALLY WANT AT HOME.

Figure 03 is loading delicate glassware into a dishwasher fully autonomously and this is exactly where humanoid robots start becoming genuinely useful.

Not flashy stunts. Not factory demos.

The boring tasks that quietly steal hours from everyday life.

Dishes. Laundry. Cleaning. Carrying groceries. Putting things away.

A household robot doesn’t need to be superhuman to change your life. It just needs to reliably give you back 30–60 minutes every single day.

That adds up to hundreds of hours a year.

The real luxury of home robots won’t be owning one.
It’ll be getting your time back.

[V0LYX @0xV0LYX]

https://t.co/7d7EXQC0zG

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@Randall25210405 I completely agree with you

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@Elpoeta_pastor Fair enough 😂
Soon the robot will be doing the dishes while you scroll Twitter and TikTok