If we map out the number of motors needed in each part of a robot’s body the same way the homunculus maps the brain space used for each body part, the two aren’t too far off.

What’s shockingly similar: fingers and hands take up so much room. On a Unitree G1 with dexterous hands, the fingers alone get 14 of its 43 motors, about a third. In the human motor cortex, hands get roughly a quarter to a third.

The biggest difference: human brains need a lot of space for eating and speech. Lips, tongue, jaw and throat take about a third of the map. Robots bypass that altogether. The G1 has zero face motors and talks through a speaker.

Both images show one side of the body. On the robot side, each dot is one motor.

Sources: G1 joint counts come from Unitree’s published specs. The human side is Penfield’s motor homunculus, whose proportions are approximate.

so as i usually do, i spent about an hour producing an analysis of interpretation of bodily movement using my language-based analytical technique only to receive a take down notice from the moderators stating that it was low-effort work.

admittedly, the post consisted of an image and a hyperlink. the actual analysis at the link is indeed short, but the actual theory and research behind took many hours and thousands of analyses.

its a bit like looking at a robotic arm and saying, 'meh! nothing to see here! - delete.'

i was hoping the comments would allow me to elaborate further

it is what it is.

for anyone who would like to see the analysis that the moderators removed, let me know and you can decide for yourself.