i think this comment illuminates the issue. seems like an industry veteran (unconfirmed) thinks having the thing walking around is plausible but is confused about interaction.
Even assuming the robot existed, which it doesn't, (Maaaaybe it was tethered, so it didn't have to carry around batteries and a hydraulic pump) I'm quailing at the task of programming the thing. To match human performance would be decades of work for thousands of programmers.
(The robot picks up a screwdriver, and a screw. Then the screw slips out of its fingers. Now what? It lines up the screw and the screwdriver. It applies torque. The head of the screw strips out. Now what? The pain of robotics is that you need to cover each and every little error case, because if you don't, the damn thing doesn't work, because it has no brain! This is why every industrial robot is massively overbuilt, and it's environment and fixturing is carefully simplified and fenced off, because error handling is such a pain in the real world, where a dropped item bounces away and hides under a bench or in an orientation where your gripper can't pick it up. 1 in 1000 is too high of an error rate. 1 in 10000 is too much. It has to function perfectly, every time, every grasp.)
And the maintenance costs! Mechanical humanoid hands are terrible end effectors. All little moving parts and lousy tolerances. They would need constant repair and replacement. It couldn't possibly be cheaper than a human in 2021 or 2030.
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