Adcock: Humanoid robots will be the world's biggest business by far
Brett Adcock · No Priors Ep. 58 | The argument for humanoid robots with Brett Adcock from Figure · Apr 4, 2024 · at 3:23
Brett Adcock is the founder and CEO of humanoid robotics company Figure AI, discussing the total addressable market of general-purpose robotics with Sarah Guo.
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“A, it's gonna be the biggest business in the world by probably order of magnitude. Half of GDP is human labor, like an order of magnitude bigger than, like, all of transportation market. It's just an enormous industry.”
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