Have you seen the Chinese dancing robots? A viral video suggests that a revolution may be near. But the path to their mass deployment is shaped by technical limits and economic viability.
🤖 Václav Hlaváč, Deputy Director of CIIRC, offered a sober analysis of the current global development of humanoid robots in the Rozstřel program on iDNES.cz.
His key observations:
💬 “But notice that there are no spectators in the video.”
The absence of an audience suggests the choreography was refined over long and repeated trials, which does not match the need for immediate reliability in uncontrolled real-world environments.
💬 “The weakest aspect is how much a robot can carry.”
While real industrial settings commonly require handling heavier objects, the payload capacity of many current humanoids is around five kilograms per arm.
At CIIRC, we have been working on robotics for many years in a systematic and long-term way. The institute is currently acquiring its own humanoid robot for research purposes. Václav Hlaváč concludes with scientific caution:
💬 “Let’s work on it. Let’s wait. And let’s look for the niches where it actually pays off.”
