Perhaps change the headline to say famed roboticist == Rodney Brooks... because that matters. A lot.

And I do agree with him. Today's humanoid robots are poorer than any task compared to other, specific / single-purpose robots. And they are more expensive. And they don't generalize. All humanoid companies are burning their $$$$ for sake of cute stories. None of the companies today are revenue generating, let alone profitable.

Perhaps in a decade or longer, when we have better, more robust vision-multi-modal-action models we will have humanoid-ish robots that are actually valuable. And these too are unlikely to be human-like.

Brooks's essay is worth reading in full: https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dex...