There are various reasons why we have humanoid robots in our SF, but they’re mostly to do with using them as symbols of how we’ve historically treated humans (and being able to put an actor inside, in the case of movies), rather than because a humanoid robot is really useful.
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Whenever we invent a new technology, we tend to first use it in the way that the old replaced technology was used. Only later can we invent new ways of using.
That’s very true.