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Summary Hype vs. Reality: Despite recent impressive demo videos from Google DeepMind (Gemini Robotics 2) and startups like 1X, MIT robotics researchers emphasize that reliable household humanoid robots are still over a decade away. Dexterity & Reliability Gap: Gemini Robotics 2 introduces a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model running under a single policy, but achieving human-level hand…