Is there something inherently better about the biped humanoid form or are people building humanoid robots because we’ve shaped the world around us to fit humans?

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I think neither. biped walking is an interesting problem space but from utility point of view, you could build a quadruped robot (or some better design) that can do it all in the human world. there might be psychological reasons for HCI but these might also change as we have more robots around.

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Personally I’m less scared of a robot with a functional shape (not resembling anything in the animal world) than a human shaped one. Imagine instead of cars to have robotic horses.. it will be creepy imho.

lol yeah I mean quadruped meant to be just an example to say that being biped isn't required (or the best way) to interact effectively with the human world.