Not sure this counts as "humanoid" any more than the robots we've had in factories for a century... the hands and feet are nothing like a human's, and would not be improved by being more human.

It seems they just made the shape of their machine have a vaguely human silhouette so they could ride a hype wave.

I'm all for programmable humanoid robots, humans are an awesome human interface, but this ain't it.

That’s generally what it seemed like to me too. Seemed to be human shaped so they could say it’s humanoid… and nothing else.

Nothing in the video looked like it couldn’t be done by a more industrial robot shaped robot. And I bet that would be cheaper or easier to make.

Then I started reading the text. When I got to the part very early on about deploying “Physical AI” that confirmed it to me.

This all seems to be “humanoid washing”. Nothing terribly interesting that someone put a special coat of paint on to get attention.

I’d love to be proven wrong. But the video certainly didn’t show it. And I didn’t notice it in the press release, though it was hard to parse past the ridiculously over the top language that did nothing but obscure what was actually going on.

Probably because there’s not much going on.

And the speed it is working is much slower than a human