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Time Is Running Out for Embodied AI

The embodied AI sector has fallen into a race of prioritizing fundraising and demos and serving narratives rather than real deployment; projects that can be stably commercialized account for less than 5% of all humanoid robot projects. The article points out that a demo-first evaluation system leads to prototype rework, stalled pilots, and project delays, and argues for shifting assessment metrics to continuous operating hours, fault reproduction rate, environmental generalization capability, and unit maintenance cost, and for first refining closed loops in clearly bounded scenarios such as factories, warehousing, and inspection.

Part of the event: Embodied intelligence accused of prioritizing demos over deployment, with commercial projects under 5%

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