[4d4m]

+100. The money burned on this will be in the trillions by the end of the decade. I still feel like humanity will benefit from general humanoid robots, but the timeline is underestimated. You are right that specialty robotics and general arms are the right choice for commerce and repeatable actions today and that these will be superior for speed/quality for the foreseeable future until software and power storage catches up to what is needed for untethered humanoid form robots.

[sinenomine]

Humanoids are much cheaper than a car or an ev to manufacture at scale - the economics for humanoids is potentially very scalable and efficient. The solid state batteries are remarkably dense too, and battery replacement via dockstations has already been implemented in some models.

[NewUser76312]

The hardware is great and can definitely scale. That's why as a caveat I think teleoperation is a good general purpose application cluster for these.

But I really struggle to come up with any other economically viable short-term use cases, even with great hardware...