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The only reason to make a robot humanoid is to fuck it. Every other use-case doesn't need human limitations or complexity.
Why design hips, knees, ankles, coordination, and balance when wheels exist?
Humanoid robots are a scam.
The world around us is shaped to serve the human figure. Steps, stairs, gaps between surfaces, ladders, and obstacles on the ground would be near impossible to navigate using wheels. Instead of changing the environment it'd be easier to make a humanoid robot that can navigate those things the same way we would.
Also every worker at foxconn etc has a shitload of cameras on them to train the models.
I saw a Chinese robot short on YouTube recently where the robot had hips and swayed while it walked. For a more "human like" gait
Not if you're a robofucker.
Excuse me, but the preferred term is robosexual.