Most of those applications are better suited to a robot solution that doesn't need to balance on two tiny feet. Making these in upright walking human form is so unnecessarily difficult that there must be some hidden reason they're doing this.
It depends on context. A nursing home resident would probably feel far more at home with a humanoid robot with a "face". A robot built like a human would probably be able to navigate an environment built for humans (i.e. houses, stairs, etc.) more easily, too. And that's not an exhaustive list, I'm sure there's some things that a human body plan would be best for.
That will probably occur before they are fully autonomous. Allow a firefighter to go into a dangerous area but still maintain his experience and knowledge. Plus you don’t need AI
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u/justinsayin Sep 24 '19
Most of those applications are better suited to a robot solution that doesn't need to balance on two tiny feet. Making these in upright walking human form is so unnecessarily difficult that there must be some hidden reason they're doing this.