Elon Musk: “If you wanted to do all the things that a human can do, it…”

“… do specific tasks and maybe better than a human to do more things than a human can do. How do you decide to make it just like a human? Well, If you wanted to do all the things that a human can do, it turns out you need a humanoid robot. So if you want to just do a subset, that's much easier. But it turns out humans evolved to the shape and capabilities that we have for good reasons.” (11:22–11:27)

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