Somebody Taught the Robot. Nobody Taught the Kid.

Podcast: The Long Game for All: Counting What Frontlines Know · Venki Padmanabhan

Opublikowano: 2026-11-03

In September 2025, a roboticist named Benjie Holson put on a silver bodysuit and filmed himself doing silly things. He cracked an egg into a frying pan. He wiped a window with paper towels. He wrestled a dog-poop bag off a roll. He was throwing a gauntlet. Holson had just watched the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing and come away flat. As fun as rock-em-sock-em is, he wrote, what people actually care about is robots doing their chores. So he posted his own Olympics: doors, laundry, tool use, fingertips, wet work. Real medals, mailed to the winners...