Yeah, but here's the thing: it will always be cheaper to design products to be manufactured by special-purpose robots than to design them to be manufactured by humans and use "human-capable" robots to do the work instead.
A perfect example is modern electronics. A large part of the reason for the rise of surface mount electronic components (SMT parts are soldered to the same side of the circuit board that they are placed on) is that they make it much cheaper to assemble electronics by automated pick & place machines than it would have been to keep the older through-hole components (with pins/wires that go through the board and are soldered on the opposite side) and use human-like robots to assemble them.
Likewise, airplanes have autopilots designed into them for that purpose instead of having robotic pilots sitting in seats.
The reality is that in most large volume manufacturing, special purpose automation will win out over general purpose robots.
A perfect example is modern electronics. A large part of the reason for the rise of surface mount electronic components (SMT parts are soldered to the same side of the circuit board that they are placed on) is that they make it much cheaper to assemble electronics by automated pick & place machines than it would have been to keep the older through-hole components (with pins/wires that go through the board and are soldered on the opposite side) and use human-like robots to assemble them.
Likewise, airplanes have autopilots designed into them for that purpose instead of having robotic pilots sitting in seats.
The reality is that in most large volume manufacturing, special purpose automation will win out over general purpose robots.