[Chabsff]

Humanoid robots can be dropped in wherever human labor is currently used.

That makes them extremely easy to sell to industry. This unlocks, in principle, a large chunk of the potential untapped industrial automation market that still relies on human labor because the ROI of redesigning production lines didn't make sense.

[poilcn]

These humanoid robots would cost $10-100k to make and would require costly maintenance for them to do the job people in poor countries do for a dollar. I don't say we won't come to it eventually, but not in near future

More realistically it seems that llms in several years could help dramatically decrease costs of automation and make it available for more industries

[gowld]

That's the dream.

It's easier to redesign the work to be robot-friendly than to deploy a humanoid robot and have it actually work.

[Chabsff]

I don't think it's the dream, I think it's the cynical market-driven logic.

Automation has been rolling out for a long while now, and most of the low-hanging fruit of things that can easily be redesigned in a cost-effective way has been dealt with already. The role of these robots is to address all of the stuff that would have been automated by now if they could have.