Lebaredian: Humanoid robots will take off first in industrial sectors
Rev Lebaredian · NVIDIA VP Rev Lebaredian Talks Plan To Build AI That Understands The Real World · Feb 5, 2025 · at 46:06
Rev Lebaredian, VP of Omniverse & Simulation Technology at NVIDIA, discusses the rollout timeline for humanoid robots across different industries.
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“We believe that the first place we're going to see general purpose robots like the humanoid robots really take off is in the industrial sector because of two things. One, the demand is great there because we have the shortage of workers. and also because It makes more sense to have them adopted in these spaces where a company just decides to put them in there and mostly warehouses and factories are kind of unseen.”
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