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Factories already use a ton of different robots, none of them bipedal. You use people for when the task is too fiddly for a robotic end effector, like wiring harnesses. Or sometimes things with dynamic environments like loading/unloading boxes. For that use case, Boston Dynamics actually made a wheeled robot.
Spot's use case is retrofitting robotics into things that weren't meant for it. But it's rarely the right choice if you're building something new.