You need to look at this as solving puzzle piece by piece. In essence they are getting better and better at doing sophisticated controllers for multi-DOF robots

You need to look at this as solving puzzle piece by piece. In essence they are getting better and better at doing sophisticated controllers for multi-DOF robots. Atlas is 35-DOF robot and we get amazed by it. Human body is 230+ DOF mechanism. If they can continue on their current path they might be able to produce very usable robot that can replace human in laborious work. Sure, it’s long way to go but so someone would need to develop this tech nonetheless. Human labor is the largest industry on the planet worth 10s of trillions of dollars and is the biggest bottleneck. A 10 or 20 years investment for a trillion dollar business opportunity definitely makes sense.