Why are we spending billions building robots with two arms, two legs, five fingers and a face—when the human body is far from the perfect machine?
In this episode of Tech Stories, we trace the strange history of robots from Unimate, the first industrial robot working at General Motors, to Boston Dynamics’ Atlas and today’s race to put humanoids into factories, warehouses and eventually our homes.
For decades, we redesigned factories around robots: fixed positions, predictable movements, safety cages and conveyor belts. Now the strategy is changing. Instead of rebuilding the world for machines, companies are trying to build machines that can enter the world we already created for ourselves.
But that opens a much bigger question.
If robots can eventually use our tools, climb our stairs, operate our factories and perform the physical work humans once did—what happens to the value of human labor? And if work is no longer what makes us useful, what exactly makes us valuable?
Tech Stories tells the hidden, surprising stories behind the world’s most influential tech companies, inventions, and creators—packed with insights, suspense, and real lessons you can apply.
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