“Humanoid” can be a vague term when looking at alien/creature cause sometimes it refers to anything that’s upright and loosely has the body plan of a human, and other times people mean literally just a normal ass human with things added on
as long as it has a sensory organ or two and some limbs, it’s humanoid enough as far as I’m concerned.
Behold a man
the bare minimum is that humanoids must be bipedal
Behold a man: part 2
thank u Diogenes
I’d define humanoid as the follows;
Maintains a torso or torso-analogue which houses primary organs such as stomach and heart/lungs.Â
Erect walking; Spine or other similar centralized structure/trunk/torso remains vertical during majority of ambulation.Â
Head, with primary sensory organs, situated atop torso/spine system.Â
Body is relatively symmetrical across the Saggital Plane
Two Manipulator limbs, situated at upper part of torso. Manipulator limb end-effectors capable of grasping and fine manipulation. (Standard benchmark is average member can hold entire body up by one end-effector’s grip strength alone, able to grasp and lift single hollow glass ball (diameter 1/170th of total creature height, wall thickness 0.05 of diameter) from flat surface, pass it to second manipulator and place it on second flat surface,
without either crushing the ball or dropping it.)
Two Ambulatory limbs, situated opposite the transverse plane of the manipulator limbs.
Possible additional limb (tail), but additional ambulatory limbs likely disqualify.
Possible additional manipulator limbs (including wings, or other similar systems) but significant changes to body configuration may disqualify.Â
(Note the reason I’m exhaustive on this is because of my Tabletop Setting. I promise I’m not really that weird).Â