What Remains
When machines can do what we do, what is left that is distinctly human? The question Leonardo was really asking, and why it matters now more than ever.
Chapter 12 of A Brief History of Embodied Intelligence
Leonardo’s knight could sit and stand and raise its visor. But Leonardo was the one who wondered what it would be like to build one. That wondering is what remains.
In January 2026, the humanoid robot section of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas occupied an entire hall of the convention cente…
