Welcome to humanoid network services.
Who’s controlling this thing?
Soon you will have humanoid robots but you won’t be controlling them by pushing buttons.
When they turn up they will instantly start collecting tones of data because they don’t want you to telling them what to do or how to do it. They will know this in an instance.
Which really means you are not controlling it, you are trusting it to collect data and get instructions. Which really means you just need to own and manage the link between where you are and where the instructions come from.
They collect what they need
No matter what, you are going to need to let the humanoid robot do what it needs to do. I needs to collect and process data. Most likely it will process some data locally and then ask for help from a cloud service for final instructions. You have to give it a way to connect.
Instructions are for sale in the cloud
Believe it or not companies are investing big money in making models in data centers that can make instructions for controlling things that can manipulate the physical world.
Your data represents your physical world. So when you send your data to the service, you get back instructions specific to your situation. These instructions are for you. You need to be be careful with them. You need to protect and monitor the path over the internet.
Capable units for every task
Don’t worry about the hardware. You will be able to buy or rent any thing for any task. Any task that is being done now that people are willing to pay money for will encourage the hardware factories product the capability to do that task.
Your main concern if you buy or rent one will be what’s running on the inside. You need to harden and segment your network to manage access.
Don’t let it stop
You probably know this already, sometimes things just work. Which is great if the difference between working and not working is just mild frustration. But sometimes it’s a disaster when things break.
If something stopping at the wrong time causes a big problem then having a plan for resilience and redundant ready to go backups in a good idea.
Do I need to do anything?
Change seems to be the only constraint. If change is inevitable then preparing to change is a good first step.