EUR 30.-Are there reasons, humanoid robotics research should be discontinued?

I am not sure you ask the right question. Maybe it is more revealing the other way:
is there any significant advantage of humanoid robotics?

Humanoid shape in general makes a lot of demands on simple things like moving the robot around, mimicking humanoid shape and feel, mimics or whatever the humanoidness means in the given project.
For most of the (real) purposes, such humanoid features are not necessary, yet extremely expensive. I.e if the robot can move around on gears, it is technically much easier and cheaper than creating legs, and make the robot balancing constantly on them.

Partial humanoid features like face + face expression for certain robots, or hand like manipulators can have justification. But nothing guaranties that a human hand is the best manipulator for a certain function, so beside human-machine interaction related functions, I dont see any urgent reason to develop humanoid robots.

Dear Cronos
Have there been solutions to this question? Woudl you mind revealing a few of them? I find the question very interesting.
Best wishes
Laura ( I am a fan of yours!)