Over 10 years ago now, I remember being at one of GV's summer BBQs (then still called Google Ventures) and seeing Google's self-driving car prototype and Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot.

It's crazy to think that we're now in an age where these things are starting to become real.

You can't help but feel that there's something a little dystopian about this though; that while we increasingly underserve the actual humans who do the very labor these humanoid robots promise to do, we pour billions into developing their replacements.

And one can't fully shake the memory of the humanoid robots of sci-fi movies like I, Robot that tell us, on some level, that the more humanoid the shape of the robot, the more likely it is to act as a sentient being capable—even predisposed—to cold violence and betrayal of its creators. It's a tale as old as Genesis.

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Perhaps the foremost leader in this revolution is Figure, Brett Adcock's relatively new startup.

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1x

1x, now teamed up with Kind Humanoid,

1x's NEO Gamma (https://www.1x.tech/)

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