You are absolutely right. And this is reflected in the choice of robots deployed in warehouses. For example, Amazon uses hundreds of thousands of simple wheele

You are absolutely right. And this is reflected in the choice of robots deployed in warehouses. For example, Amazon uses hundreds of thousands of simple wheeled floor-jack like robots to move the shelves around [1], and they started doing this many years ago. Meanwhile, they have only a handful of humanoid robots, on experimental basis, trying to decide if they are useful [2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULswQgd73Tc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULswQgd73Tc [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8IdbodRG14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8IdbodRG14