The next humanoid robot may not have a head. Maybe it won’t have legs. It can also sit on a wheeled base and fold like a deck chair. But, as Genesis AI says, “Humanoid robots do not need to look like humans.”
This explains the look of Eno, the new robot from the French startup backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Genesis says Eno is designed “around human capability” rather than human appearance and is intended as a purely “general-purpose” robot rather than a machine built around a single task, such as washing clothes. However, one part is still very human: its hands, which the company says are designed to “exactly match the shape and function of human hands” so the robot can use tools and objects already made for people.
Genesis says it plans to begin production and targeted customer deployment by the end of 2026, starting with manufacturing, laboratories and logistics, followed by hospitals, hotels and consumers. The company says “additional avatars” are also in development.
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