The rise of the machines is canceled: Why humanoids with AI are helpers, not enemies
THE SO WHAT
The real shift with humanoids isn’t sci-fi threat, it’s labor substitution in human-designed environments—factories, warehouses, and logistics where form factor compatibility matters. If your operations are built around human ergonomics, you should be mapping which tasks a general-purpose helper could take over once reliability crosses your threshold.
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