Technology

Being human shaped is a wild disadvantage in many contexts as well. Creating machines allows for all sorts of geometry humans simply aren’t capable of mimicking. The idea of designing something to look human for the sake of doing so seems like a non-starter. If being human shaped is optimal for a task, so be it, but it just feels like people unable to overcome a sci-if image of the future (robot people doing everything for us) that existed before contemporary industrialization and frankly had much more to do with humans acting the parts in film and theater and ease of humans relating to human appearing objects in film and other media than any imagined industrial utility of human shaped robots.