[steveBK123]

Humanoid robots strike me as a FSD/AGI level of overshoot. Sure a humanoid robot that actually worked would be able to accomplish everything a human could physically because of the way interior spaces are designed. But focussing on that deliverable may miss a lot of available use case solutions.

For example robotic vacuums and lawn mowers have been around, pretty cheap, and pretty good for some time.

There's lots of home chores that a wheeled robovac with telescoping arms & really good vision could accomplish very well (empty/load dishwasher to/from sink/cabinets, light kitchen work, dusting, sweeping, etc). To deliver this in humanoid form you need to solve all the same vision/arm articulation problems, PLUS all the self balancing/walking/look&feel stuff of a humanoid.

There's actually stuff a robot could do better than me if it had a telescoping arm instead of being humanoid look&feel focussed (dusting / reaching high places etc).

To me it conflates 2 problems and overcomplicates to focus on the humanoid form factor at this stage.

And look at the evolution of some tools - cars do not really look like horse drawn carriages for example. Helicopters don't look like flying cars.

[actionfromafar]

Agreed with caveats. A good general robot would still probably have similar mass to a human, appendages with similar reach, and so on. A horse carriage and a modern car have similar sizes, can take similar amounts of cargo and seating, and take up similar space on the road.

So a good generic bot needn’t be an android, but in that ballpark.