What would you use it for that other machines are unsuitable for? Carrying stuff? Helping with somewhat heavy construction tasks? The torso seems a bit too in the way of the hands to be useful for anything. I mean, it looks cool but might be kinda useless.

It's for throwing the alien queen off the spaceship, obviously.

(It looks uncannily like the loader Ripley drives in Aliens)

What is the use of a Hermes bag? Carrying stuff? Did you know that people buy sneakers for thousands of dollars and don't wear them at all? What is the use of that?

People like to have fun, you already know this; but perhaps what you don't know is that the "fun" segment of the world economy is trillions of dollars big. People like to have fun a lot, having fun on its own is enough of a trigger for many people to acquire stuff.

This thing will sell like hot cakes.

The only thing I have seen that bipedal and quad robots have over wheels is the ability to traverse more terrain types.

For the boss to walk around the factory and strike fear and laughter deep into the hearts of employees.

It might fit a niche between a forklift and a crane. Pick up large things and move them, with some of the versatility of the crane and mobility of a forklift. While being too big to fit in most places, and probably having a fraction of the load capacity of either

I think the article nails it:

> Early buyers are likely theme parks, industrial operators, or deep-pocketed enthusiasts

It looks cool, and unless you have a very specific niche that will be its main feature

I could see some applications for it. But they are selling it as a mode of transportation?

>What would you use it for that other machines are unsuitable for?

The thing I love about the tech culture in China is that they never really seem to ask themselves this question. They just do cool things because they seem cool. See their EV market for more of this. A car with a movie projector for headlights? Why not? Wish we had more of that in the US.

It's about as useful as an F1 car if you see it as a development platform.

>The torso seems a bit too in the way of the hands to be useful for anything.

The wide torso/cage is what's protecting the human operator should the robot fall over.

Tyeah, the ones from Avatar look cooler, but imagine you fall on your face in it, you'd get turned into mush.

A forklift would be more useful and you'd have like $600k+ left over

boost the valuation of your company.