TJ Walker argues humanoid robots fail because they copy rigid boxes instead of human anatomy. His 2018 patents on soft-muscle designs could let robots use existing tools, but he says Chinese economic espionage delayed getting them to market.
But at what point, for example, will Amazon be able to have nothing but robots in its warehouses and not have human beings doing it?
Yeah, definitely. The biggest challenge, even from the modern humanoid nowadays is the engineers aren't modeling the anatomy closer to close to human anatomy. So they're anatomically, the foundation is completely wrong. I mean, our chest is not a box. They keep on using boxes. We don't run off of servos and actuators, for example. And my patents, which were granted to 2018, I run them off of soft muscles, similar human anatomy to us, basically. So they can move and move around and use human tools, basically. Why do we need to redesign a robot that's using custom tools when we could actually use existing tools that humans use, basically. So I don't think it's very far away. I do have a monopoly on this type of patent, basically because it was granted in 2018. So my technologies, I had a little bit of an economic espionage from China, so it affected my ability to produce and deliver them on my original timeline, basically.
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