The wait is real too

Every few months, a humanoid robotics clip lands and the cycle repeats: this is the breakthrough, here come the helpers, you'll never lift Dad off the floor alone again. Then the clip ends and you're still alone in the bathroom at 3 a.m.

The robots really are coming. Figure, Tesla, Apptronik, Unitree, Boston Dynamics — they're all converging on the same general-purpose humanoid form factor. Within several years, an in-home assistant that can carry a load, navigate stairs, and respond to natural language is plausible. Maybe sooner.

But "plausible in several years" is not "available next quarter." For the caregivers reading this — the ones whose mother fell yesterday, whose father has a follow-up next Tuesday — the right move is to track the curve without betting on it. The help is real. The wait is real. Both can be true.