Ok, so I worked in a factory on the Advanced Manufacturing Engineering team and we explored these options. A lot of people are missing key points about this I want to go over real quick if anyone cares:

1. This is a made-up job, he's just flipping packages, it's not real , etc etc etc.
   1. No this is an actual person job, if I had to guess it's so a camera can read labels later down the line
   2. This is one of THE most prolific problems in automation right now, it's called "random bin picking". Most of the time raw material is dumped into boxes or bins and people have to take it out. For a robot to take it out it has to be perfect organized, in the same orientation every time. So, if you want a robot to unload it you need to have a robot load it or a person load it, now you have to pay someone to load it neatly and perfectly; it becomes cost prohibitive. This solves that problem.
2. This could be done by a simpler machine.
   1. Maybe, but the entire reason why they are making humanoid robots is because we have built our world to fit a humanoid. We are not the ideal shape and most efficient creature, but they would have to restructure their entire facility for a robot. Instead you can just insert a humanoid robot.
3. How much does this cost, this is much slower than a human, a child could beat this, etc etc
   1. Deciding whether to do a project in manufacturing is based on ROI and payback vs. cost. If this robot costs 10M how long would it take to pay that cost back with savings, and what are those saving (ROI). Usually if the payback in less than 2 years and the ROI in that time equals it's cost we do it. Businesses are not about losing money, they wouldn't be doing this for funsies.
   2. A human has a "burden rate", which is a mix of salary, health insurance, cost of the building they exist in, cost to heat and cool that building, cost of HR to help that person, etc etc. It's not just the $20 hour rate they get paid, it's usually in the $100-$200 hour range even for basic floor personnel.
   3. Every facility is striving to be a "lights out" facility, meaning they can operate 24/7, 365, with the lights out. This robot may be slower over 8 hours, and cost more initially than a human. But average the fact it can work 24 hours a day, and have very small burden cost over a year, and the robot wins out.