The humanoid form is just for show. You need a handful of actuators to work the control and a way to power them. Throttle is already servo-actuated on the stock

The humanoid form is just for show. You need a handful of actuators to work the control and a way to power them. Throttle is already servo-actuated on the stock bike. The robot will have the advantage in mass and mass distribution. What I do think the bots will have a hard time doing is replicating the intuition that people like Rossi and Marquez have. Understanding what parts of the track have the most grip, braking/accelerating/cornering on the ragged edge of traction. And that's only half of what's happening in race conditions -- you have to contend with a grid full of other riders taking offensive lines and passing only inches away. A robot motorcycle might be able to take on GP-level riders at Thunder Hill in a time trial in a few years, but it's hard to imagine the same thing happening at, say, the Isle of Man TT, or anything approaching race conditions.