The Download: AI roadblocks for humanoids and portable rubber dams

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soonThe hype around humanoid robots is reaching fever pitch. Much of it comes from the idea that the same AI advances behind ChatGPT and Claude could enable robots to imitate human movement the way chatbots imitate human language. But many researchers are skeptical.They argue that su