Adcock: Humanoid robot manufacturing resembles consumer electronics, not cars
Brett Adcock · Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath · Nov 5, 2025 · at 1:06:09
Brett Adcock, founder of Figure AI and former co-founder of Archer Aviation, explains the industrial scaling model for humanoid robots.
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“Automotive manufacturing is like the most complex systems I've ever seen in my entire life all put together to manufacture cars. It's like hundreds of times harder than manufacturing consumer electronics. Like, we manufacture consumer electronics a lot by hand in the world, and we ship billion phones, whatever it is, and it, making cars is extremely tough. Making humanoids is not a car. It's a consumer electronics.”
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