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While investors are busy pouring billions of dollars into humanoid robots, an MIT roboticist who has been making robots for three decades claims they are wasting their money.<\/p>\n

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Rodney Brooks, the cofounder of Roomba vacuum creator iRobot, said the idea of humanoid robots as catchall assistants, the future Elon Musk\u00a0envisions<\/a>, is \u201cpure fantasy thinking,\u201d in part because robots are coordination-challenged.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s humanoid robots will not learn how to be dexterous despite the hundreds of millions, or perhaps many billions of dollars, being donated by VCs and major tech companies to pay for their training,\u201d said Brooks in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The sensation of touch is one of the most complex systems in the human body. The human hand contains 17,000 low-threshold mechanoreceptors for picking up light touches, which become denser toward the end of the fingertips. The receptors in your hands respond to myriad stimuli-like pressures\u2014vibrations in sync with 15 different families of neurons. All of this adds up to a complex mechanism that humans want to replicate in robots.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While AI has been trained on large amounts of speech-recognition<\/a> and image-processing data, \u201cwe do not have such a tradition for touch data,\u201d Brooks said, adding he takes issue with the way both Musk\u2019s Tesla<\/a> and AI-robotics company Figure are training their humanoid robots, with videos of humans performing tasks<\/a>, assuming this will result in vastly improved dexterity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the big tech companies and the VCs throwing their money at large-scale humanoid training spent only 20% as much but gave it all to university researchers I tend to think they would get closer to their goals more quickly,\u201d Brooks said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To be sure, Brooks\u2019 former company iRobot filed for bankruptcy<\/a> in December after Amazon<\/a> walked away from acquiring the company in 2024. Its value has plummeted from around to about $140 million last year from $3.56 billion in 2021. The company will be acquired by its main Chinese manufacturer and lender, although it has said the restructuring will not affect its existing products.<\/p>\n

Musk, for his part, said at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month that Tesla will start selling its Optimus robots to the public by the end of 2027. He has previously said Optimus is already performing tasks in Tesla factories autonomously. Meanwhile, Figure achieved a $39 billion post-money valuation<\/a> in September last year after its latest billion-dollar fundraise. But in Brooks\u2019 eyes, all this investment adds up to a highly expensive training regime for humanoid robots who will not look exactly like us.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brooks claims successful robots in 15 years will look nothing like humans\u2014and will sport wheels, multiple arms, and possibly five-fingered hands, though they will still be called \u201chumanoid robots.\u201d But as for today\u2019s efforts, they will largely be relegated to the history books.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of money will have disappeared, spent on trying to squeeze performance, any performance, from today\u2019s humanoid robots. But those robots will be long gone and mostly conveniently forgotten,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

A version of this story originally published on\u00a0<\/em>Fortune.com<\/em><\/a>\u00a0on Sept. 29, 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n

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