With the rapid pace of advancement in artificial intelligence and robotics, much of the emphasis has gone into building humanoid robots like Tesla’s Optimus or Boston Dynamics’s Atlas. This seems like a less efficient way of building robots when many could be mission-specific. In the video below, Boston Dynamics’s Director of Robot Behavior for Atlas, Alberto Rodriguez, and Product Lead for Humanoid Applications Aya Durin, discuss the benefits of humanoid robots. Watch: