{"id":89973,"date":"2026-05-30T14:44:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/are-consumers-ready-for-humanoid-robots\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T14:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:44:02","slug":"are-consumers-ready-for-humanoid-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/are-consumers-ready-for-humanoid-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Are consumers ready for humanoid robots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humanoid robots are more impressive than ever before. Not long ago they would barely manage a few steps on stage <!--more--> before falling over but now they are chasing wild boars off the streets in Warsaw and smashing half-marathon records in Beijing. What does this extraordinary leap in engineering mean? And, now that AI is part of the mix, should we be worried about the future? Are consumers ready for the rise of the humanoid robot? The FT&#8217;s Cristina Criddle reports from San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>#ai #artificialintelligence #technology #humanoidrobot #robot #robotics <\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Enjoying FT content? Get a daily slice of the very best FT journalism with FT Edit. Free for 30 days then just \u00a34.99 a month<\/p>\n<p>See if you get the FT for free as a student (<a href=\"http:\/\/ft.com\/schoolsarefree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/ft.com\/schoolsarefree<\/a>) or start a \u00a31 trial: <a href=\"https:\/\/subs.ft.com\/spa3_trial?segmen....\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/subs.ft.com\/spa3_trial?segmen&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Check out our Community tab for more stories:    \/ @financialtimes<br \/>\n\u25ba  Listen to our podcasts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/podcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ft.com\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba  Follow us on Instagram:   \/ financialtimes<br \/>\n\u25ba  Follow us on Instagram:   \/ financialtimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanoid robots are more impressive than ever before. Not long ago they would barely manage a few steps on stage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}