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ELON: ROBOTS WILL BE EVERYWHERE DOING EVERYTHING Baron Capital CEO, Ron Baron: "The functions that you see these robots doing, is what? What are they going to do? And how are we going to have a billion of them when we have eight billion people?" Elon: "I think we will ultimately have billions, billions of humanoid robots on Earth. A way to think of it is: who on Earth would not want their own personal R2D2/C3PO? Like, pretty much everyone wants R2D2/C3PO, but even better. Like a personal helper-buddy robot, it would be great. You could teach your kids, take a robot for a walk, get the groceries, you know, chat, protect you when needed. Great. And then how many robots would there be in industry providing products? Probably 3 or 4 to one relative to humans, which suggests that the total number of robots will be somewhere around maybe as high as 40 billion, maybe 30 billion robots." Source: Elon Musk, Baron Capital, Ron Baron

ELON: ROBOTS WILL BE EVERYWHERE DOING EVERYTHING Baron Capital CEO, Ron Baron: "The functions that you see these robots doing, is what? What are they going to do? And how are we going to have a billion of them when we have eight billion people?" Elon: "I think we will ultimately have billions, billions of humanoid robots on Earth. A way to think of it is: who on Earth would not want their own personal R2D2/C3PO? Like, pretty much everyone wants R2D2/C3PO, but even better. Like a personal helper-buddy robot, it would be great. You could teach your kids, take a robot for a walk, get the groceries, you know, chat, protect you when needed. Great. And then how many robots would there be in industry providing products? Probably 3 or 4 to one relative to humans, which suggests that the total number of robots will be somewhere around maybe as high as 40 billion, maybe 30 billion robots." Source: Elon Musk, Baron Capital, Ron Baron

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ELON: EVERYONE ON EARTH WILL WANT THEIR OWN ROBOT “My prediction is the robots will actually make so many robots and AI that they will actually saturate all human needs, meaning you won't be able to even think of something to ask the robot for at a certain point. There'll be more robots than people. I think everyone on Earth is going to have one and going to want one, because who wouldn't want a robot to, assuming it's very safe, watch over your kids, take care of your pet. If you have elderly parents, it's very difficult to take care of them. It's expensive, and there just aren't enough young people to take care of the old people. If you had a robot that could take care of and protect an elderly parent, I think that would be great. That would be an amazing thing to have. And I think we will have those things.” Source: Elon Musk Interview at WEF, January 2026

ELON: EVERYONE ON EARTH WILL WANT THEIR OWN ROBOT “My prediction is the robots will actually make so many robots and AI that they will actually saturate all human needs, meaning you won't be able to even think of something to ask the robot for at a certain point. There'll be more robots than people. I think everyone on Earth is going to have one and going to want one, because who wouldn't want a robot to, assuming it's very safe, watch over your kids, take care of your pet. If you have elderly parents, it's very difficult to take care of them. It's expensive, and there just aren't enough young people to take care of the old people. If you had a robot that could take care of and protect an elderly parent, I think that would be great. That would be an amazing thing to have. And I think we will have those things.” Source: Elon Musk Interview at WEF, January 2026

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17,847 views • 2 months ago

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81,796 views • 1 year ago

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