I spent 3 days at MIT... the robot hype is worse than you think
MIT robotics researchers say practical humanoid robots are 10+ years away despite Silicon Valley hype
“the people building and researching this stuff without the incentive to raise money think that a robot that can replace your maid is still 10 plus years away”
Fireship's creator visited MIT robotics researchers who, unlike venture-funded startups, believe general-purpose humanoid robots are still 10+ years from viability. This comes as Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2 (a vision-language-action model controlling a full humanoid under a single learned policy) and startup 1X dropped new demos. The piece argues Silicon Valley robot demos are designed to pump valuations rather than reflect actual frontier capabilities.