I think there are legitimate uses such as elderly care, and a lot of manual jobs that can be automated in this way. Especially given increasing aging population.
Perhaps. Selling it as "robot butlers" made the intent sound pretty fucking awful though. And a better society that makes good use of them would still have to heed the resource and waste factors, which this one won't even care about except maybe some op-eds that express concern.
I do think humanoid robots have fairly limited application. In any scenario, like a factory, where you can just design it around automation from ground up, it's much easier to do that instead. The only place I see humanoid robots being useful is in environments that are specifically designed around humans. For example, I can see these potentially be useful for elderly care.
As someone who works with robots for a living, please please please stop suggesting this. It is also pretty clear you haven't spent any time with the elderly. Please don't make me talk to the robot when I get old, getting old is hard enough, I don't want to be dropped by the robot and then left on the ground for 3 hours because they have used the robot as an excuse to understaff even more than they already do.