00:00You've seen them go from movie screens to boxing rings and even dance performances.
00:06Global hype over humanoid robots has exploded with advancements in AI, rapidly bringing these machines into everyday life.
00:15Right now, the market is still small.
00:17Barclays estimates is worth just $2 to $3 billion.
00:21But forecasts are ramping up, $40 billion by 2035 and potentially as much as $5 trillion by 2050 when services
00:32and supply chains are included.
00:35And the money is pouring in.
00:37Investments have jumped from $700 million in 2018 to more than $4 billion last year.
00:44Startups such as Figure AI and Uptronic have secured enough venture funding to reach billion-dollar valuations.
00:52The first big use case is clear.
00:55Manufacturing.
00:55Labor shortages plus advances in AI that let robots understand and adapt to the physical world are pushing them onto
01:03factory floors.
01:04Automation is already embedded in most large-scale industrial processes.
01:09But many of today's working robots are only good at narrowly defined, repetitive tasks.
01:15Just 13,000 humanoids were shipped in 2025, compared with over half a million industrial robots installed in a single
01:24year.
01:25Projections show that could change rapidly with as many as 12 million humanoids being deployed by 2035, roughly the size
01:33of Belgium's population.
01:35China is already leading in volume, producing the majority of humanoids today, with prices far below Western piers.
01:44Widespread adoption still faces major hurdles.
01:47So for now, the gap between hype and reality remains wide.
01:53But if even a fraction of these forecasts materialize, humanoids could move from niche machines to a defining force in
02:02the global economy.
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