📝 Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity (Rodney Brooks). While it's hard for me to judge on the main argument, I can totally see the words changing:
Following that pattern, what it means to be a humanoid robot will change over time.
Before too long (and we already start to see this) humanoid robots will get wheels for feet, at first two, and later maybe more, with nothing that any longer really resembles human legs in gross form. But they will still be called humanoid robots.