[cogman10]

> What would be the top uses of humanoid robots?

To replace humans for general tasks. McDonalds would like to use them to flip burgers, take orders, and deliver meals. Amazon would like to use them to pick items from their warehouses for delivery.

I'd argue, though, in both cases the "humanoid" part isn't what they really want or need. Even in the mcdonalds case, so long as the robot is "cute" enough to interact with customers, then it can be a box with an arm.

Of course, a major problem with using robots in the food industry is cleaning and hygiene. Robots tend to have lots of hard to clean cracks that will happily carry around germs. Even in medicine, we are finding that things like laparoscopic devices are beasts that are almost impossible to fully clean.