Comment by constantcrying

>Handling heavy boxes?

Are handled by non-humanoid Robots already.

>Baking a cake?

How do you think modern industrial baking works? All done by non-humanoid Roboters.

>Operating a circular saw?

Seriously? A circular saw is the perfect scenario where a humanoid is useless.

>Performing surgery?

Why are surgery Roboters not humanoid? Obviously it is easier to give robots custom tools than make human tools conform to robots.

>Loading a ream of paper into a printer?

Do you know how a modern printing press looks like?

>Playing a violin?

Google "mp3".

>Opening a door?

ARE YOU SERIOUS? Do you think automatic doors don't exist?

It is far, far easier, cheaper, fast to make robots do a specific task than to make them do all tasks. Humans are terrible at most tasks, making robots to conform to humans is absurd.