The same viral clip — a robot sending chopsticks flying at a hot pot restaurant [6] — traveled through feeds as both evidence of failure and proof of progress, depending on who was sharing it. That split is not about the clip. It is about the pre-existing argument each viewer brought to it. The optimist reads a product-cycle glitch on the way to deployment. The skeptic reads confirmation that embodied machines in uncontrolled environments introduce a category of consequence that software errors do not. Neither reading requires inventing facts. The…