There’s functionally no engineering reason to put a robot on two legs. Every other form factor is cheaper, more stable, more efficient, and easier to maintain.

There is, however, a very good marketing reason: everyone’s watched Terminator, fear goes viral, and anxiety drives attention.

A warehouse robot is infrastructure.

A humanoid robot is an engagement strategy…

@Daojoan oh oh oh, for once I have written something somewhat relevant on the topic

https://caffeineandlasers.com/blogs/WhyhumansarehumanoidshapedandwhySciFiMechsshouldnotbe.html

Biomimicry is good, but only makes sense if you are actually working in the same constraints as the biology you are mimicking

Why humans are humanoid-shaped, and why Sci-Fi Mechs should not be

This is a story through millions of years in its past to explain why humans are shaped the way we are, and millennia into the speculative future for why mechs should probably not replicate human geometry

Caffeine and Lasers