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I don’t understand the business case for humanoid robots other than “cool toy for a show room floor”.
Surely anything an AI humanoid can do could be better done by a specialized regular robot.
A huge part of the Industrial Revolution was standardizing how everything got done, every car panel the same size and all that, enabling Henry Ford style factory floors.
What is the benefit of having robots who can do more or less anything (just like a human) but in varying and non-standard ways each time (just like a human) compared to Car-Panel-Bot-2000 which is going to make car panel after car panel for 20 years, each one microscopically the same?
Like, the pitch seems to be “this robot is versatile and so you can ask it to do more or less anything”, which sounds suspiciously similar to saying “there is no specific use case for this robot, no niche that it fills.”
the best argument for humanoid robots i've heard is that you don't need to change the environment that they will be working in, they can just be slotted in where a human once was and take over the work
Or you can just hire a housekeeper to fold your towels rather than spend $800,000 on a robot every 5 years to do it