Before you start worrying about humanoids taking over, just watch this highlight reel of catastrophic failures from the Yizhuang Robot Half-Marathon in Beijing. It seems that while bipedal robots have mastered backflips in the lab, a simple 13.1-mile jog on pavement is still a leg-day-skipping nightmare for many. The commentary is in Chinese, but the universal language of a robot face-planting into asphalt needs no translation.
