Stanford robotics prof. Allison Okamura explains why humanoid robots might be the most unimaginative form of robotics: "A lot of people think that a humanoid is a generalist robot. In the ideal, theoretically a humanoid could accomplish everything a human does. "But there are so many tasks in the world that humans can’t accomplish, and I almost feel like a humanoid robot is maybe the simplest, most unimaginative form of robot, because it’s trying to replicate what we can already do." "It’s a…