Shorts
What happened
A company called Figure ran one of its human-shaped robots around the clock for four full days, sorting packages without stopping, just to see when it would break. On day five, they live-streamed a direct competition between the robot and a human doing the same job side by side.
Why it matters
The context behind the story.
The CEO of this company believes there will be over a billion humanoid robots working jobs by 2030 — that's four years from now. These aren't clunky machines from a sci-fi movie. They're getting good enough to outwork humans on physical tasks, and companies are already building them at scale.
Takeaway
The robot worked four days straight without a break. The race between human workers and machines just got a lot more visible.
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