Humanoid robots at home? Overhyped. In warehouses? Underhyped.

I work on automation, so this is my soapbox. The home is the hardest environment that exists: unstructured, unpredictable, full of edge cases and liability. A humanoid reliably folding your laundry is a decade-plus away. But structured environments — warehouses, factories, fulfilment — are already being transformed, just not by humanoids. Wheeled, armed, purpose-built robots are quietly eating logistics. Form follows function; the human shape is mostly for the demo video and the funding round.