

There is a developer on YouTube that got his hands on a $50k G1 (with working hands) and he has been showing how to make it do things. I found it very interesting.
The basic idea, from what I understand, is that these robots are just now getting the software needed to actually stand and move around without falling, and that’s basically all these robots are shipped with. Anything other than walking and running needs to be programmed to be done, but now that we have LLMs it’s just beginning to be possible to program the robots to automatically decide how to move around and how to interact with the environment.
So, because of that, money and effort are now increasingly being invested into developing these robots into fully automous, and consequently the the prices are now quickly falling because the production at scale is finally happening in anticipation of the software needed being developed soon.
There are already drones with AI (mostly for final targeting and perhaps targeting acquisition) and I really doubt there won’t be a massive push for full automation of drones and humanoid bots as soon as it becomes feasible.
In the future, qnything less than fully automated resource extraction, production and war fighting seems like defeat to me.