I’m talking about Aria, a highly life-like humanoid robot that transcends, its maker Realbotix says, the barrier between man and machine, and is available on order to be delivered within 12 weeks.

Raise that to a $16 hourly wage and it only takes a few months. Like their flesh-and-blood peers, humanoids will learn as they go. Large language models, as used in AI, are the easy bit.

A humanoid robot has physical features similar to humans in skeletal form — arms, legs, head, etc, and is trained to do human-like tasks ... purpose humanoid to life”. Peter Welinder, VP ...