Isn't the robot in the article a prototype?

Arguably men are two legged walking robots, and men have seams. Even nature couldn't avoid it.

If you totally alter the character model to fit the envelope of a Boston Dynamics Spot/similar "dog robot', sure.

It's a corporate feel that comes from a professional setting and lots of risk aversion. That is exactly what LLMs tend to write, so I sometimes catch myself feeling the "LLM ick" but the article was from before the boom.

So I guess it's just the corporate wash cycle, which I am happy to criticize, LLM generated or not.

Yeah, I foresee a bite of '27.

You could build one today! Lots of hard problems around a proper humanoid form, but if you're cool with wheels it would be pretty easy to hook up a little robot to GPT.

Look up VLA models; that's essentially plugging the guts of a language model into a transformer that handles joint motion/vision. They get trained on "episodes" i.e. videos from the PoV of a robot doing a task, after training you can ask the model things like: "pick up the red ball and put it into the green cup" etc. Really cool stuff.

https://www.1x.tech/neo, but from what I've heard a lot of times it still has to be remote controlled by a human.

One is a portable linux computer and the other is a MIDI app? What comparison are you hoping for?