Lack of training data stifling humanoid bot development

AI models train on information available on the internet. Robots can’t do that.

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Shaun Sutner,Esther Shittu

September 23, 2026

Robotics has a big problem.

While the rapid development of generative AI technology over the last four years has supercharged the global robotics industry and accelerated testing and deployment of humanoid and other commercial bots, robot developers are at somewhat of an impasse because of the shortage of training data.