Honda's ASIMO can climb stairs and pour a drink, but it took a nuclear disaster to expose what humanoid robots still cannot do. This NHK program lines up the field's leading machines, ASIMO, Boston Dynamics' Big Dog, Rethink Robotics' Baxter, and the walking Hubo, to ask how close any of them come to functioning in the real world. The Fukushima meltdown sits at the center of the film: after the accident, no existing robot could reliably enter the contaminated plant, and engineers describe scrambling to adapt disaster-response machines for radiation, rubble, and stairs never designed with robots in mind. Footage shows these machines being tested and pushed past their limits in mocked-up hazard zones, alongside interviews with the researchers and companies racing to close the gap between laboratory demonstrations and dependable field performance. The film also tracks robots moving into workplaces, with Baxter positioned as an early attempt at a machine that can work safely alongside people on a factory floor. It closes on the open question its title asks, without pretending the answer is settled.