Mark Cuban says the future of robotics isn't humanoids

Mark Cuban said the current push for humanoid robots will likely fail within five to ten years. "Everybody's making this push for humanoid robots. I think they might have a 5-year lifespan, and then they'll fail miserably. Maybe 10," he said on the live-streamed tech show TBPN.

He argued that a better path is to co-design robots and the spaces they inhabit, rather than forcing machines to mimic human form to fit existing homes. Designers should rethink houses so robots and environments work together. Cuban suggested robots might take nonhuman shapes—like spiders or ants—to lift and carry items while appliances and storage are hidden and handled by the machines, leaving living areas for people.

"The robots aren't going to be full-form humanoids. They're going to be whatever the optimal shape is," he said. He pointed to Amazon's warehouse machines, which sort, lift, and carry packages without resembling people, as an example.

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