The cost of manufacturing humanoid robots is expected to decrease significantly with sufficient demand and investment, mirroring historical trends in hardware manufacturing.
"if there is enough de demand and investment there is no reason why the cost of manufacturing humanoids won't follow the same trajectory"
The development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and The Singularity is considered to be decades away, or potentially never, by most in the AI industry.
"most people in the AI industry agree that AGI let alone The Singularity is still a very long way off think decades or possibly never"
Humanoid robots are only justified if they are intended to be truly general-purpose, capable of learning and adapting to new tasks and environments.
"the only reason to create a humanoid is if you need a truly general purpose robot for example one that can quickly learn and adapt to new tasks problems and environments"
The primary current use case for humanoid robots is likely to be for training large behavioral models, pending significant breakthroughs in the field.
"for the time being the main use case for humanoids is probably going to be for training large behavioral models until there are major breakthroughs in this field"
