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But look behind the demonstration and you’ll often find something else: a human.
Many of today’s humanoid robots still rely on teleoperation, remote assistance, human demonstrations and enormous amounts of human-generated training data. Sometimes a person directly controls the machine. Sometimes humans step in when it gets stuck. And sometimes human operators are quietly helping robots learn tasks that may eventually become autonomous.
In this documentary, Monterra goes behind the humanoid robot boom to examine what today’s robots can actually do, why companies are investing billions in them, how human operators fit into the system, and what has to happen before humanoid robots can reliably work on their own.
The robot revolution is real. But right now, there’s still a lot more humanity inside it than the viral videos suggest.
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