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I don't even understand why they would lie about that. There's loads of uses for a humanoid remote controlled body.
Domain experts that need to carry out dangerous tasks, people being able to carry out tasks at distant locations without the hassle of actually traveling there - very useful when you only intermittently require a physical presence.
I have long since thought that bomb diffusing should be done via a robotic body. Much better to risk a replaceable humanoid drone than the whole human.
From the couch, I don't understand why a humanoid body would be best for this... We humans have to work with what we initially had, but why wouldn't a robot be better? Seems like even a wheeled/threaded cart, or a quadruped with arms could be more practical in a lot of situations...
Because a human body has no capability of controlling a non-human design. My fingers bend the way human fingers bend, I can't make them do anything else.
If you all design an interface to emulate human behavior then it needs to have human capabilities and human limits otherwise I can't control it.
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