Jensen: The humanoid robot is likely the only robot that will work – because technology needs scale, and most robots we've had so far are too low volume to drive the flywheel of technology improvements. The humanoid robot is likely to be the next multi-trillion-dollar industry.

The reason it will work so well is that for the last 10k years (or ever since the dawn of tools and agriculture), systems and processes have been built for use by humans. No other robot except for a humanoid is fully equipped to take advantage of that.

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I don’t think the world is in shortage of labour much more than shortage of paying a decent salary and providing for a quality of life for that worker. And if that’s the case, the maintenance of the robots are going to be more than human labor.

robots will make robots, robots will maintain robots - for the most part

Cool perspective 🦾

A few months later.....

humanity will reject humanoid robots.

And Europe shall remain as a gross consumer with a couple of unfulfilled local frankenstein products or spare parts manufacturers centrally controlled by either western-european state or from afar, if we continue EU's current energy policy. Why do I even like this world. 🤷

There'll be industries too (like food 🍔 delivery) where it is MUCH more efficient... To have an autonomous vehicle drive to delivery location... And then have a human take remote control of an android 🤖 to finish/hand deliver a food delivery...

Humanoid robots are a dead-end bridging technology. They only exist until we start optimizing the work environment for robots instead of humans. Then a virtuous circle is created where robots and their environment become increasingly unhuman to optimize for the work instead of the humans doing the work.

The human form is one of the absolute worst forms for actually doing work of just about any kind. Sure, it's flexible, but it is also incredibly inefficient. Just assuming that the human form is the best for accomplishing tasks is horribly short-sighted and limiting.