The New Embodiment of AI: Why Humanoid Robots Are Tech's Next Big Bet

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24/10/2025

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OpenAI now pushes hard to build humanoid robots. The company bets that a real body is the fastest route to artificial general intelligence and analysts say the market for such machines will reach five trillion dollars by 2050.

The firm lists new jobs for researchers who will design the brains that sit inside metal and plastic people. In 2021 OpenAI closed its robotics team - today it reopens the door. Leaders like Yann LeCun say a mind that never touches the world stays forever narrow. The new plan is to let software feel weight, friction plus impact so it learns how reality works.

OpenAI is not alone. Tesla works on the Optimus robot and feeds its school of neural nets with billions of miles logged by Tesla cars. Boston Dynamics will soon place the battery powered Atlas on Hyundai assembly lines. Amazon-backed Agility Robotics runs pilot shifts in freight depots. The Chinese company Unitree ships legs and arms by the crate.

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First jobs for those workers involve dull, dirty or dangerous chores inside fenced plants but also warehouses. Sam Altman says that before long you will watch seven robots stroll past you on the sidewalk. The road from demo to dinner table helper is long - machines must stay safe among scattered toys, stairs and pets and they need hands that grip a needle as well as a box. The space between staged video as well as everyday trust is still wide open.

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