[jjaksic]

Because human work is designed for humans. If you want a drop-in replacement for human workers, humanoid robots are your best bet.

[seanhunter]

That doesn’t even remotely follow. Human work is designed for humans so if you want human work done you need a human to do it.

If you want to replace the human the best bet is to redesign the work so that it can be done with machine assistance, which is what we’ve been doing since the industrial revolution.

There’s a reason the motor car (which is the successful mass market personal transportation machine) doesn’t look anything like the horse that it replaced.

[jkestner]

<HN voice>Technically, the motor car replaced the coach. A more accurate and enjoyable analogy would that car engines don’t look like horses.

[batch12]

I don't think that it's human work this would target, but instead work in shared human spaces.

[blktiger]

Sure but robots don’t join unions or ask for a pay raise or benefits.