Americans can now order a US-made tabletop humanoid for under $12,000
Meet Aria, Mila, Dave and Amar – the first four models coming out of Las Vegas-based humanoid company Realbotix. To make them more affordable than what consumers are likely to have to pay for ambulatory humanoids for at least a few years, the makers have decided to focus on the top half.
It's true that locomotion and joints, along with degrees of freedom in digits, are a work in progress when it comes to humanoids, and make any likely consumer models much slower to make it to market and far more expensive than what Realbotix is offering.
Essentially, you'll get to pre-order your choice of the four models, which as you'll see are armless torsos but with great hair, so we'll give them that. For the US$11,950 "tabletop" model, you'll get exactly what it sounds like. It's a robot that'll sit on top of a table or bench that you...
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