Comment by TGower
6 months ago
Economies of scale. The humanoid form can interact with all of the existing infrastructure for jobs currently done by humans, so that's the obvious form factor for companies looking to churn out robots to sell by the millions.
Can, but an insectoid form factor and much smaller size could easily be better. It's not so common that being of human size is an advantage even where things are set up to allow for humans.
Consider how chimney sweeps used to be children.
Not only that but if humanoid robots were available commercially (and viable) they could be used as housemaids or for.. companionship if not more. Of course, we're entering SciFi territory but it's long been a SciFi theme.