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They seem so bad for factory work though? One of those robot arms would work so much better than some shitty humanoid robot.
The world is made for general purpose humans including vast amounts of factory space. There will always be things for a general purpose robot to do 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 can they solve it (huge if) and even if they do, how many can they actually sell.