Carolina Parada

Senior Director and Head of Robotics at Google DeepMind, where she leads work on Gemini Robotics, embodied intelligence, robot mobility, robot vision, and safe autonomous robots in human-centered environments.

Dexterity, AI, and Cost Still Separate Humanoids From Mass Adoption

Bloomberg Tech: Asia’s Humanoid Summit segment presents humanoid robotics as an industry trying to move from demonstrations to deployment, with forecasts far ahead of current adoption. Shery Ahn’s interviews with Google DeepMind’s Carolina Parada, Honda’s Takahide Yoshiike and Bloomberg Intelligence’s Ian Ma frame the central test as whether humanoids can become useful, safe and affordable machines rather than theatrical prototypes. Their arguments converge on the same bottlenecks: embodied AI, dexterous manipulation, cost, standards and a business model that can support scale.

Bloomberg TechnologyMay 29, 202611 min read