Co-founder of iRobot, Rodney Brooks, warns that massive investments in humanoid robots, such as those developed by Tesla and Figure, are a waste of money.

What is the problem? Human hands are incredibly sophisticated, equipped with approximately 17,000 specialized tactile receptors, which no robot comes close to matching. While automatic learning has transformed speech recognition and image processing, these discoveries have relied on decades of existing technology for capturing the correct data. "We do not have such a tradition for tactile data," Brooks emphasizes.