During a recent event in Silicon Valley (Souce), one that attracted attention, not because it was exaggerated, but because of the level of realism that it entails, the possibility of creating synthetic humans at scale, the company Clone Robotics is proposing a completely different approach from what the world has become accustomed to seeing in robots.

Instead of motors, gears and rigid structures, they are trying to replicate something much more complex, the human body itself, while much of the industry builds machines that imitate the human form, Clone tries to copy the internal functioning, the robot they developed does not use a traditional metal skeleton, it is based on a polymer structure that imitates the human anatomy and instead of electric motors they use artificial muscles called Miofiber.

It is a technology inspired by hydraulic systems that seeks to reproduce the way real muscles contract, relax and generate movement, this creates a level of fluidity and precision that traditional robos simply cannot achieve, but there is a high technical cost behind all this.

Controlling this type of system is extremely complex because each movement requires the simultaneous control of multiple variables, something much closer to biology than classical engineering, this is where artificial intelligence comes in; According to the company, the most advanced models manage to abstract this complexity, allowing the system to operate this synthetic body as if it were a conventional machine, but with much more natural movements.

And the company's plans show that this is not an isolated experiment. They have already defined a classic roadmap, in 2026 they will reach a level of precision sufficient to manipulate delicate tools. In 2027 achieve a completely natural walk, in 2028 launch the first commercial robberies focused on environments such as hotels and corporate services.

The point that really changes everything is the cost, according to the founders themselves, it is already possible to produce these machines for less than $20,000. a value that places this technology dangerously close to mass access and that completely changes the equation because when a technology approaches that price level, it stops being experimental and begins to become inevitable.

Perhaps the most uncomfortable part is yet to come, the company also revealed that it intends to evolve these models towards increasingly human versions, first with neutral faces, then with full facial expressions, replicating dozens of muscles responsible for micro-expressions, that is, machines that not only move like humans, but look like humans. And when that level is reached, the difference between natural and artificial might simply disappear.

When you look at this idea of ​​synthetic humans, it seems far away, almost theoretical, but there is a technical detail that is making all of this possible now.