and so is the safety margin for a humanoid. The consumer market is huge only if the robots are highly reliable and work very well both of which are not true at the moment. Things will change but it will take quite a bit of time and much more research.

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Symmetry 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Safety stops are much more challenging in a robot that tends to fall over without active balancing. Though with ISO 25785-1 in progress maybe there'll be a workable humanoid robot safety standard in a few years.

	▲	omnicognate 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting, hadn't heard of ISO 25785-1. It appears to be for industrial robots, though, and explicitly excludes "mobile robots intended for consumer or household use".

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jpace121 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Is the demand there at the price point and reliability levels that are currently possible?