The current hype surrounding general-purpose humanoid robots entirely dismisses a fundamental engineering reality: the power density problem. Power density, which is the amount of energy that can be stored per unit of weight (or volume) in a battery, is woefully inadequate to run the kind of powerful, modern AI required for general-purpose tasks. A robot
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