I would be much more impressed to see a person with a controller (and just directional controls) telling the bipedal robot where to go in a normal human environ

I would be much more impressed to see a person with a controller (and just directional controls) telling the bipedal robot where to go in a normal human environment - for example, just crossing the street. These seem very curated, on perfectly flat, grippy surfaces. Perhaps it just shows how truly difficult the human method of bipedal locomotion really is that this doesn't seem to have been achieved yet.