The Startup Surge
Figure, 1X, Sanctuary, and the new generation betting billions on humanoid robots.
Chapter 7 of A Brief History of Embodied Intelligence.
“People see the demos and think we’re almost there. We’re not. We’re at the very beginning.” — Jonathan Hurst, Agility Robotics
In late 2022, in a warehouse in Sunnyvale, California, Brett Adcock watched his team bolt together the first prototype of a humanoid robot.
The scene was unglamorous. Exposed …
