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@IN-tm8mw
August 16, 2026 at 8:32 am
I never dreamed about a cleaning robot; my ultimate Robot was always the Repair Bot or Station. Placing a damaged item or car near it and it would start repairing. Or a maintenance bot. But i know those are mostly used in space settings where getting tons of workers is difficult.
@CJayyTheCreative
August 17, 2026 at 8:00 am
The ikea test is when a humanoid robot can open a box of ikea furniture and build it by itself with the instructions provided in the box
This test hasn’t been achieved yet but when it is, the world will be forever changed. Your dream will be real.
@ArnoldLee-c5h
August 16, 2026 at 8:33 am
So , it will pick up your dogs 💩 , clean your toilet and then do your dishes and laundry? 😮 Sounds great ! ?
It gives new meaning to computer viruses. 🦠 😅
@ChordtoChord
August 16, 2026 at 8:47 am
You’re not talking about “home robots”, but “humanoid home robots”. It could be that robots to fill specific tasks are better suited to the home in the near term. (A bathroom cleaning bot, a kitchen bot, etc.) One major advantage to this approach is that several tasks could be addressed at the same time.
@ClayMann
August 16, 2026 at 9:09 am
I’m not sure why any American based channels are even covering robots anymore. They’ve all been completely banned in your country. You ain’t getting another robot vacuum let alone a humanoid robot cleaning your house. It would be funny though to have robots getting mass produced and reviewed by CNET only for no one in America being allowed to order them. You can look but you can’t touch lol
@j.b.onesnap
August 16, 2026 at 9:42 am
Uhh, what?
@CJayyTheCreative
August 17, 2026 at 7:59 am
There are many American humanoid robotics companies my friend , as cool as Chinese unitree bots are…
America has Boston dynamics, 1xtech, apptronik, figure and of course Tesla , with many more like Amazon on the way
@ClayMann
August 17, 2026 at 10:27 am
@CJayyTheCreative I’m just going to let you cope about this. Obviously you need time to feel the loss is real. Boston Dynamics is owned by Hundai which is a south korean company. Just look behind the companies and see who really owns them. Tesla doesn’t have a robot, it has hand made bipeds you see very rarely and no plans to put them into production despite what Elon claims. But if anyone will be allowed to make robots that have chinese parts its surely Tesla!
I really hope you see a lot of new American startups that make it to production because if not you as a country are going to start to fall behind the rest of the world as it uses all this new smart technology to underpin business and feed consumer demand. But sadly I truly do not see America becoming a manufacturing hub for major electronics. Maybe if the whole country went into a war footing and laws were passed to fast track students through engineering, give grants for smart business ideas and encourage a Shenzen like collaboration of businesses in a tax free autonomous zone free of copyright/patent worries. It could be done but I don’t see it happening currently and simply cutting Americans off from all the new smart technology sounds like a great way to turn your country into Russia where everyone is buying the same car from 2006 as that was the last time they had them freely imported at scale. Oh all the electric cars are banned too but that happened ages ago. Tesla is excempt from that I believe despite a lot of its parts being Chinese and any other company doing the same currently wouldnt be allowed to sell that car in America. Weird that.
@samon_kurowassan
August 16, 2026 at 9:20 am
You’d be surprised that the robot goes to your bathroom whenever you take a bath 😂 …only to find out it’s “tele-operated.”
@TroupeGoal
August 16, 2026 at 9:29 am
Fascinating video! You have to wonder though who’s going to have the jobs that can afford them once AI has taken the jobs that it’s likely to.
@KenHeslip
August 16, 2026 at 1:45 pm
Billionaires buying their own products. 😂
@outoftheblue_UK
August 17, 2026 at 2:41 am
It is an obvious flaw in their plan. Putting millions of people out of work, while relying on vulnerable data centres, that use up all the local electricity and water supply. What could possibly go wrong there 😂
@CJayyTheCreative
August 17, 2026 at 7:57 am
We’re thinking too medieval , thinking the current structure of jobs will remain relevant in the robot world you describe.
Ideally what will happen is more robots come and productively increase availability of goods and services for everyone. Naturally with automation prices go down cause it will cost nothing but a humanoid robot to do the task eventually.
We may not own robots personally at all like we think, they may just be public utility that just sort of moves around the city doing various jobs and you can request one for your home
@thegreatimu
August 16, 2026 at 9:44 am
Agibot A3 ultra, Optimus 3, Figure 04 are the ones to look for 😎
@1g38e8wyd
August 16, 2026 at 10:36 am
and Neo
@thegreatimu
August 16, 2026 at 10:49 am
@1g38e8wyd they need to imrpove the walking big time 😂
@CJayyTheCreative
August 17, 2026 at 7:53 am
1x Neo is better than AGIbot. Neo is purposely designed for the home.
Also I’d add Unitree, the Chinese bots are arguably the cheapest best out here ! First humanoid robots people can buy in 2024
@Danilio.
August 16, 2026 at 9:48 am
I, Robot
@michaelangeloabarreto4588
August 16, 2026 at 9:51 am
Privacy doesn’t pay the shareholders
@Quinn-k6b
August 16, 2026 at 9:57 am
What about the risk of being stolen or should i say kidnapped? ……
@outoftheblue_UK
August 17, 2026 at 2:55 am
The robot will be out with the trash after a week, nobody will want it. Think about it, you pay for the thing, then it needs more payments, as humans need to operate it. We’ve seen how this goes with full self driving? There’s no way the early ones are going to be as dexterous as a human. Cheaper to employ a person to do menial tasks, than a robot that isn’t as good and will need human help?
@drblitz3092
August 16, 2026 at 10:30 am
All this crap is built for home owners. EV’s and robots.
@1g38e8wyd
August 16, 2026 at 10:36 am
I think that the test of the future of humanoid robotics is 1x’s mass deployment. The current hypiothesis is that all of this data will improve the robot, but if it doesnt, the industry may crash, ending up more like self driving cars, most of the current players will shut down
@ropro9817
August 16, 2026 at 10:38 am
Prediction: AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN. Humanoid home robotics will fizzle out just like NFTs and the Metaverse when the market finally realizes all of these hurdles and investors lose interest.
@CJayyTheCreative
August 17, 2026 at 7:51 am
If you think humanity will never make a 1:1 metal human that can do their labor for them, you don’t know humanity that well.
@femboyaliens789
August 16, 2026 at 11:05 am
Imagine giving those people who preordered the robot remote access instead of random workers. If i could fold clothes via my keyboard i would be much more likely to buy something like that vs letting some random person have a full view of my home and family.
@outoftheblue_UK
August 17, 2026 at 2:58 am
You would be letting random people, that are required to operate the robot, full access to your home and family, without meeting them first? I can see it will work one day, but I won’t be an earl;y adopter.
@CJayyTheCreative
August 17, 2026 at 7:50 am
Eh it’s only teleoperated for about a year, by next year / 2028 the robots will be fully autonomous
The early preorders are the frontier power users / wealthy. By the time me and you get it the problems will be ironed out! Thats the good part
@outoftheblue_UK
August 17, 2026 at 3:43 pm
@CJayyTheCreative Full self driving was going to be next year, a decade ago. Things usually take a lot longer than expected.
@imatimetraveler5760
August 16, 2026 at 11:07 am
Boss and manager replacement I’m so excited 😂👍✌️
@urbanstrencan
August 16, 2026 at 12:35 pm
Industry is going just to crazy on AI and especially humanoid robots 😮😢
@promonadeer
August 16, 2026 at 2:07 pm
They’ll be controlled by “experts” to do chores? Sounds like slavery with extra steps.
@outoftheblue_UK
August 17, 2026 at 2:50 am
It will be much cheaper to do it yourself, or pay someone and cut out the expense of the robot , that’s unlikely to be as good as a human😂 This tech will be good one day, but like full self driving, it isn’t going to be easy.
@OneManOnFire
August 16, 2026 at 3:18 pm
I’m so glad I didn’t get that job with 1X
@krisg.4257
August 16, 2026 at 3:24 pm
WOW, you guys didn’t show a single image of Tesla Optimus… 👎
@lostgleammedia
August 16, 2026 at 7:15 pm
Home robots will free us all, no more dull work
@outoftheblue_UK
August 17, 2026 at 2:43 am
When AI takes our jobs, no more work? How do people pay for the robots? I’m not understanding the economics of all of this.
@lostgleammedia
August 17, 2026 at 4:15 am
@outoftheblue_UKthe robots do the mining, farming and manufacturing (including themselves), then money will no longer exist.. even if bad people own the robots, it only takes an organisation like Greenpeace to build/buy some robots to set up this system (everyone would give them money to do this).. seems inevitable to my mind
@CJayyTheCreative
August 17, 2026 at 8:03 am
@l@lostgleammedia the funny thing is capitalism is going to create the next economic system and destroy itself
It’s like capitalism always wants cheap labor and more output always. Capitalism also needs people like us to consume.
I truly think we will be okay because the system requires us. I think the billionaires even understand this, I think the billionaires are also getting so wealthy and there are a lot of billionaires now that most of them are actively bringing value into this world
@outoftheblue_UK
August 17, 2026 at 3:47 pm
@lostgleammedia I think it will take time to get the robots to replace most humans. Then what’s going to happen when humans can’t make money working?
@lostgleammedia
August 17, 2026 at 3:55 pm
@outoftheblue_UK people will have leisure, Arts, sports, learning, inventing and travel lives.. the tech is advancing quickly like it always does but who knows when robots will free us from work
@CJayyTheCreative
August 17, 2026 at 7:47 am
We get it robots aren’t ready yet for homes , what’s the point of keep making these same videos telling us they aren’t ready? It’s still coming.
I just can’t stand when people run with the idea that problems cant be fixed. Technology gets better, patience please.
@tracywaters3487
August 17, 2026 at 8:44 am
This is ridiculous, humans are fully capable of doing their own house work. People just need to use their time more wisely, teach their children how to do house work so they can take care of themselves when they get out own their own.
@zaphodbeeblebrox2817
August 17, 2026 at 9:48 am
Tech Bro’s want of mechanical slaves exceeds their ability to think.
Fanuc KUKA ABB Rockwell Siemens Cognex Schneider Honeywell Omron etc etc etc
All these companies have been replacing people with automation for decades so why aren’t they making humanoids?
Do all of them lack foresight? Are they sitting around waiting for a humanoid or AMR or “Physical AI” to use their products? No, they have already incorporated AI into them! The “AI revolution” has already been underway. There is nothing new happening except now the tech bros want mechanical slaves and don’t realize they already have them. Smart automation already exists. “Physical AI” is just a new buzzword.
We see how Amazon is replacing people and it’s not with humanoids. Because robots ALREADY use Vision and AI and they don’t look like humans because humans are limited. (they have to climb ladders, hands too big for small things etc.)
UNDERSTAND THIS
Automation has been replacing people in factories for decades and it hasn’t stopped. So if a humanoid can do it, it’s ALREADY automated! (1) Because a humanoid IS just automation. So there are NO jobs for it in a factory! just look at history(2)
There is a company already making autonomous mobile welding robots because it makes more sense than a humanoid welder. Should a future robot electrician or plumber have built in power tools and cameras at the tools? Or is a humanoid going to carry hand tools around and stick his head under the sink to fix it?
BMW is trying to use them but a configurable AMR would have far fewer parts and therefore better reliability and performance at a lower cost than a mass produced complicated humanoid robot with weak fingers instead of strong grippers.
Many seem to think factory jobs are easier than other jobs, they are not. A lousy housekeeper won’t cut it. Even if it had a brain it couldn’t work at McDonalds because the hands can’t bag items, make change, crack eggs, wrap burgers etc. Also it should be obvious that AGI does not need a humanoid to replace someone working at a desk. But they would be really nice if a handicapped person could use it as a telepresence to go shopping, do simple chores, etc. TAM will be small. There will be more AMR’s than “working” humanoids.
Look at it this way. If AGI could assemble widgets or do surgery or manicures, etc. it would need special tools not batteries, hands and legs. Optimus is not strong enough to dig a hole or help someone get up off the floor. It can’t work at McDonalds. Can it wash its hands? How long would it take it to change gloves, start a roll of tape etc.? A humanoid MUST do a job on par with a person because workplaces are made so people along with machines maximize asset utilization. That is why you CAN’T just put two humanoids in place of one person.
If you have a trade job, you’d realize it would be impossible or impractically slow to do it with robot hands. No amount of AGI Learning or training is going to make clumsy hands better with tools, scissors, small parts etc. Making hands equal to a person is impractical and unnecessary. People underestimate the versatility of the hand. It’s soft on the gripper parts, finger tips, pads, palms. But it can also sense temperature, pressure and the direction of pressure AT ALL points of the soft pads. So when you put a lid on a paper cup you don’t crush it because your hand is soft and can feel the pressure. When you pick something up you can sense when it will slip. Soft fingertips can grasp small parts, fingernails are often used.
Hot, heavy, dirty and dangerous jobs. There are 100s of millions of them around the world. And if a humanoid could actually do it, LOL, most of those jobs pay super low wages in places where there is no electricity to charge it anyway.
Who will buy them? Not factory or warehouse managers. They can’t do trade jobs or hard labor. They will be lousy housekeepers, tour guides, popcorn servers, entertainers etc. ridiculed as toys and criminals will use them for nefarious purposes. At best it could be a checkout clerk that will restock the store at night if it ever really gets a brain. Credit only, robot hands can’t handle money well.
(1) It’s first principles. If the goal is to emulate a human then you must make a humanoid/android. But if the goal is doing things that a human can do, then first principles DOES NOT dictate a humanoid. So AI is already “embodied” or “physical”. (ill conceived terms, us old folks say, smart sensor or smart tv) And if you do want to emulate a human, you must choose which characteristics you want. It may need sensitive hands to feel slight imperfections or it may need durable hands for hard work. So a one-size-fits-all like Optimus is not practical.
(2) Warehouse managers needed people to store and retrieve items. Now warehouses are full of non-humanoid smart robots. People had to pick parts out of a pile and place them with correct orientation. Now one armed robots do it. People had to pick up parts to inspect and measure them. Now lasers measure them and vision systems inspect them. PID controllers became self tuning. As tech/learning/AI improved, so did machines and machine controllers. Just like computers taking jobs with spreadsheets and scanners. All the while someone was saying a humanoid will soon do the work.
@citogrid
August 17, 2026 at 10:00 am
for the next decade or so, this is a drunk stumbling expensive junk toy for fools or idiots
@owenloh9300
August 17, 2026 at 8:01 pm
The title on this video keeps changing for me
Different people are being shown different titles on this one — right now it’s roughly:
• “The Many Problems With Home Robotics” — about 96% of viewers
• “Why Home Robots Are Taking So Long” — about 2% of viewers
• “All the Problems With Home Robots” — about 1% of viewers
• “Why Home Robots Aren’t Ready (Yet)” — about 1% of viewers