Along what everyone else said, so it’s more broadly marketable. In theory a humanoid robot could do any job a real human is doing now, meaning you don’t need a high tech production line to go along with it. You don’t need to automate your entire production line to get started.

Also, it’s more of a commodity. A business could sell the robot once they don’t need it and anyone else could just buy it to use for a different purpose. Not many will have a use for highly customised robots ment for a specific task.

It’s so that our replacements can work alongside us just long enough for us to trust them. It’ll make us less resistant when they drag us to the bio-repurposing vats.

The main use of humanoid robots is to work in environments suitable for humans (think inspecting a dam or such, climbing ladders and everything), as well as flexibility, especially when it comes to low-frequency tasks. BMW makes a lot of different models with tons of different options, their production line isn’t really a line it’s a directed graph.

Humans made things for humans.

Rearranging everything is better but more expensive. Sometimes it absolutely will be and has been done. There will be cases where humanoid robot is cheaper and easier. That’s not even bringing up new uses like waiter or carer, but those will be much later generations.

I think it’s to provide a general solution for most labor shortages and not specific solutions.

It’s a showpiece to make the stock go up.

Proof of concept. Speed has already increased and it will.

Lots of companies must be looking into humanoid robots and I know they have already been looking into robotic arms

The unions, probably.

Markets and investors are not fully rational. They’ll jump on a hype because the fear of missing out.