From your early point -- both 1) and 2) are true. True human level dexterity is ver far (few decades surely), it would require further advancements in hardware,

From your early point -- both 1) and 2) are true. True human level dexterity is ver far (few decades surely), it would require further advancements in hardware, learning approaches etc. Recent approaches provide a glimmer of hope and maybe we can have some intermediate robots -- to be honest even waymo's and tesla's are robots and we will see much more of such robots with vision, working with humans etc. in narrow settings - chinese dancing robots are examples of this.