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Many demonstrations of humanoid robots focus on ballet dancing or acrobatic feats—tasks that are narrow, choreographed, and intentionally simplified. These demos showcase impressive body manipulation but do not reflect the complexity of everyday tasks, which involve unpredictable interactions, decision making under uncertainty, and nuanced physical control.
Elon Musk has emphasized that hands are "really hard," and current software stacks are often fragile, requiring enormous computational resources and sophisticated algorithms to approach human-like dexterity. The progress in AI, such as Tesla's developments in self-driving, gives hope, but extending that to the full breadth of human environments remains an arduous challenge.