The Eldercare Robot Image That Became a Replacement Anxiety Test

The scene ^[2] — engineers monitoring a humanoid robot as it slowly lifts a mannequin from a bed — was published as evidence of how far robotic caretaking still has to go. The shares treated it as evidence of how close it has come. That inversion is not a misreading. It is a different question being asked of the same image: not 'is this robot capable?' but 'when will someone decide it is capable enough?' The distinction matters because the second question has a different answer depending on who is…