Humanoid robots strike me as a FSD/AGI level of overshoot. Sure a humanoid robot that actually worked would be able to accomplish everything a human could phys

Humanoid robots strike me as a FSD/AGI level of overshoot. Sure a humanoid robot that actually worked would be able to accomplish everything a human could physically because of the way interior spaces are designed. But focussing on that deliverable may miss a lot of available use case solutions. For example robotic vacuums and lawn mowers have been around, pretty cheap, and pretty good for some time. There's lots of home chores that a wheeled robovac with telescoping arms & really good vision could accomplish very well (empty/load dishwasher to/from sink/cabinets, light kitchen work, dusting, sweeping, etc). To deliver this in humanoid form you need to solve all the same vision/arm articulation problems, PLUS all the self balancing/walking/look&feel stuff of a humanoid. There's actually stuff a robot could do better than me if it had a telescoping arm instead of being humanoid look&feel focussed (dusting / reaching high places etc). To me it conflates 2 problems and overcomplicates to focus on the humanoid form factor at this stage. And look at the evolution of some tools - cars do not really look like horse drawn carriages for example. Helicopters don't look like flying cars.