mrp23

This framing clarifies something people get wrong about humanoid robots. The competition isn't "humanoid vs. better robot" — it's "humanoid vs. hiring another person."

And that reframes the economics entirely. You don't need the robot to be better than a human at any given task. You need the total cost of ownership to be lower than a salary, benefits, turnover, and training. That's a much easier bar to clear once the AI catches up to the body.

The interesting question is whether the AI problem gets solved generally (one model that can do everything) or whether we end up with task-specific AI in a general-purpose body — basically the robot arm paradigm wearing a humanoid suit.