Forbes June 7, 2025
Some companies building advanced robotic limbs are discovering that the market for humanoid robots is larger than that for actual humans.
Matt Carney was good at building robots — he just didn’t want to. While earning his PhD at MIT, he’d spent years studying mechanical engineering and biomechatronics in service of developing bionic prosthetics that could help people who’d lost limbs. He hoped to build robotic legs that could pick up on the phantom signals sent by a body’s muscles or function autonomously so it could move naturally, unlike the plastic, unmoving prostheses that are common now.
But as he began talking to venture capitalists about funding a company that would develop these so-called bionics, he quickly discovered that the...
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