Humanoid Design for Human Dignity

Design choices in humanoid robots and avatars — from clothing and fix routines to embodied interaction scripts — can actively protect or harm human dignity. Treating robot deployment as a caregiving and etiquette problem (not just an engineering one) changes what regulation, procurement, and corporate contracts should require. — Appointing dignity‑centered design standards for embodied AI would shift legal, procurement and corporate practice toward consent, safe affordances, and enforceable provenance for likenesses.