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Because so much infrastructure is in humanoid form. If you can make something that can manipulate two hands on arms that are positioned and moved like human arms, you could just put that torso into a lot of situations to replace a human without a lot of retooling. That's the dream I think.

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Installing humanoid robots in a factory is like using regexes to parse data.

It makes sense if it's a one-off but there are better solutions.

Maybe it does make sense for small scale businesses that need just a little automation? Like a humanoid robot could restock shelves and do inventory in a grocery store at night, and you wouldn't need to retrofit anything to be able to do that.

Large scale factories seems like the wrong use case for humanoid robots.

I personally think humans make the mistake of thinking that we must create objects that emulate oneself. Imagination is tough, I know.

Does the computer 'memory' behave identically like human memory? Of course not. Does it look like the 'memory' of a human? Again, of course not.

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