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that's the story, but this doesn't work, like, at all, with just a moment's thought.
if humanoid was a good shape we'd have humanoid robots already.
the reason is they're selling sci fi dreams of robot servants even though these dreams are lies.
I'm not saying I believe they can do it, or that even they believe they can do it. I'm saying that's the profit motive behind why they're trying to develop humanoid robots. If any of them can be "the first" to making ones that can use tools and spaces designed for us, they'll immediately get into "disrupting" labor markets etc.
We've seen the same with chatbots, I guess. Objectively speaking, they perform worse at most tasks than regular search engines, databases, dedicated machine learning-based tools etc. However, they sound humanoid (like overly sycophantic human office workers, to be more precise), thus the hype.