Eventually there will be tens of billions of humanoids on planet Earth—one per human plus 5-10B in commercial workforce.

Eventually there will be tens of billions of humanoids on planet Earth—one per human plus 5-10B in commercial workforce. | I mean, I think it's relatively straightforward to think that every human should have a humanoid to do all your work and then we should have maybe an order of like 5 to seven maybe 10 billion in the commercial workforce... I think if all goes well, I think you could basically build tens of billions of humanoids on a planet.

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I mean, I think it's relatively straightforward to think that every human should have a humanoid to do all your work and then we should have maybe an order of like 5 to seven maybe 10 billion in the commercial workforce... I think if all goes well, I think you could basically build tens of billions of humanoids on a planet.

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