The Edward Warchocki stunt is being read as a proof-of-concept for humanoid robots in public space — but the proof it offers is entirely about optics. The robot's designers were not testing boar-herding efficacy; they were testing whether a humanoid machine could generate attention in a human-led environment. On that metric, the experiment succeeded far beyond its Warsaw staging. On the question of whether it advanced any claim about what robots can do operationally, the answer is the boars' indifference: the animals wandered off on their own schedule, not the…