South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

Re:South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production a... by imtringued on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @02:26AM (#48729156)

Those were never techniques created for humanoid robots. Google researched using transformers as vision language action models to drive robots back in 2023 on a mobile manipulator and probably did non VLA work even earlier.

This is something people refuse to understand. The shape of the robot changes absolutely nothing about robot intelligence unless it abandons the basic concept of joints and links. Continuum robots are very difficult to control but they are also incredibly niche.

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Re:South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production a... by numpad0 on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @07:41AM (#48731257)

I really can't shrug off my suspicion since one of Chinese humanoid startups had added few female type body bumps on a robot and the online humanoid hype cluster("but does it do laundry or dishes" types) responded in panic with shared sentiments of defeat, that, those humanoid hype types might be just yearning for HBO Westworld bots, to state it with modesty, not even Data or Marvin who we can share drinks with. The absolute humanoid obsession doesn't make sense to me otherwise. The cookie cutter "humanoids are best poised for leveraging pre-existing human infra" response make close to zero sense otherwise.

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