Not defending Musk, but the point of humanoid robots is to perform a job currently done by a human worker without modifying the process or tools. Dedicated robot arms are fantastic for factory work, but the jobs they do have to specifically be designed to be done by a robot arm.
As an example, you can’t put a robot arm at a human workspace and have it open a plastic bag, put an item inside it, and pick up a tape gun seal it with tape. For a robot arm to do that, the entire workspace, and extra robots would have to be added and programmed to accomplish the same task.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The world is made for general purpose humans including vast amounts of factory space. There will always be things for a general purpose robot that’ll be cheaper than designing and manufacturing a low volume bespoke robot.
Like Amazon is trying and building robots to do a lot of picking, but they can’t even fully automate that.
It’s more a question of will can they solve it (huge if) and even if they do, how many can they actually sell.