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2025 Is the Year of the Humanoid Robot Factory Worker

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Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory.

2025 looks set to be the year that multipurpose humanoid robots go commercial.

Goldman Sachs report estimates that humanoid robots will represent a $38 billion market by 2035 .

The basic promise of humanoid robots is that they will be able to switch between multiple tasks just like their human peers.

The rapid pace of progress on AI models gives reason to be optimistic.

“If you’d asked me five years ago , I would have said, Never gonna happen,’” Atkeson says. “With large language models, we have made enormous progress in what I’ll call common sense. Maybe we’re almost there.”.