The main reason of humanoid robots isn’t that the people think that it is a person, it’s because our environment is made for humans and because of this the design to best fit in this environment with several different tasks. The little bot in the article never be apable to wash your dishes, climb stairs or serve you an beer from the fridge. Robots made for one specific task, certainly can have a design specific for it, there isn’t needed an humanoid design.

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