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[–] MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

You can watch some videos on YouTube, if you really want to learn. It's interesting, sometimes in a full-dystopian nightmare fuel kind of way. Yes, we are at the point where some of these robots can climb and jump.

It's a gimmick, though, for sure. Just like human-mimicking androids are a gimmick. The money for robotics is in manufacturing.

But I'll bet there will always be an obscenely wealthy person who is willing to pay for a cool looking robot prototype.