Where Humanoid Robots Stand in August 2024: Interim Conclusions

Originally published in Chinese on August 21, 2024. The state of the humanoid industry and its problems How much action data a robot needs As of August 2024, training a single action in a single scene takes roughly 1 billion samples of action data. A robot hand picking up an object, one action, needs more than 1 billion samples, and none of it is natural data. All of it is synthetic. Why commercial automation stops at carrying Commercial automation for humanoids today centers on one action, carrying. Anything more advanced than carrying cannot move forward at this stage, because the datasets are not there. What local governments expect