Robotics
Robotics
Humanoids, manipulation, sim-to-real — the hardware catching up to the models.
State of the world · updated June 2026
Right now: learned policies have replaced hand-coding, and humanoids are doing real, if narrow, work. The bottleneck is data — gathered through teleoperation and simulation.
Watch: robust locomotion under perturbation, the teleop data flywheel, and whether costs fall fast enough for deployment beyond demos.
Start here · the primer
Robots are having their GPT moment: one policy, many tasks, learned from demonstration and simulation. The bottleneck moved from hardware to data, and humanoids are the bet that the world is already shaped for us.