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There is no good reason to make a humanoid robot at all and wanting to do so has disturbing implications. It's mechanically impractical and also like...why would you want to emulate human slavery? Machines are made to do tasks that we as humans arent specialized to do as well as the machine we built. Thats why we built it.
The justification that makes most sense to me is the fact that, theoretically, if good enough, they could massively reduce the investment required to start using them, as they could be dropped into workplaces designed for human operation without need for extensive rebuilding. Your mileage may vary on how likely it is the robots would get good enough to achieve this in our lifetime, though it does seem plausible to me.
This idea doesn't apply to teachers at all or any other job that's primarily social or academic - and while there's an argument for a humanoid body form I do very much agree that trying to make them look human is sketch as fuck and has basically no good purposes.
I can see a bar robot. Like one that mixes drinks.
Have you seen those custom drink machines at movie theaters? Something like that but with alcohol. A person shaped bartender robot is an easy example of why the human form is sometimes not well equipped for the inhumane labor we nake people do. I hsve worked restaurants my whole life and a big giant vending machine could easily be a bar. Having it be shaped like a person would be way less efficient.