The structural problem is not that any individual video lies — it is that YouTube's incentive architecture selects for the most impressive-looking 60-second cut, and humanoid robotics happens to produce visuals that are genuinely arresting even when the underlying capability is narrow or assisted. A kitchen robot performing a single scripted task [2] and a museum kinetic sculpture playing music arrive in the same feed with the same implied claim: the machines are here. What neither clip shows is the constraint envelope those machines operate within. That omission is…