Humanoids are leaving the lab. They're being pointed at warehouses, factories, and eventually homes — increasingly variable environments. Simulations and internal benchmarks will say increasingly little about how a robot behaves on hour 9 of a real shift, in bad light, around someone who isn't expecting it.

The name 'Physical Turing' comes from the Turing test — the classic bar for telling a machine apart from a human. That is precisely what we are: a physical Turing test, run to determine whether a humanoid behaves like us and can be trusted in the real world. The only way to do this is to test in the real world, in the environments they will operate in.

We run the trials nobody wants to run on their own robot, so the ones that pass have earned every customer they win.