At some point, you'll walk out in a city (likely San Francisco first) and see more humanoids than humans.
Predictor: Brett Adcock · ep#229 "The Humanoid Takeover: $50T Market, Figure's Full Body Autonomy, and Robots in Dorms #229" · source
Prediction text
At some point, you'll walk out in a city (likely San Francisco first) and see more humanoids than humans. | at some point you're going to walk out probably in San Francisco be the first and you'll see more humanoids than humans. Yeah. And I think that'll be an amazing day.
Watch events: Figure 03 shipment volume; BMW, 2nd customer deployment count
Verbatim quote
at some point you're going to walk out probably in San Francisco be the first and you'll see more humanoids than humans. Yeah. And I think that'll be an amazing day.
Predictor: Brett Adcock
Calibration plot (stated vs observed)
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Reference class
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Probability over time
Milestone chain
- 2026-10-06pendingQ1 window check-in (25%)
- 2026-12-31pendingGlobal humanoid demand reaches 30,000 units in 2026How: Industry consensus tracker (Bain, Morgan Stanley) confirms >=30,000 global humanoid unit demand for calendar 2026Source: https://www.bain.com/insights/humanoid-robots-from-demos-to-deployment-technology-report-2025/ - base case 30,000 units 2026conf 55%
- 2026-09-01 → 2027-06-30pendingTesla Optimus external customer shipments beginHow: Tesla begins shipping Optimus to first non-Tesla external customers, per Q3 2026 / 2027 guidanceSource: https://blog.robozaps.com/b/figure-01-vs-tesla-optimus-gen-2 - first external customers expected late 2026conf 55%
- 2027-03-14pendingQ2 window check-in (50%)
- 2026-12-31 → 2027-12-31pendingFoundation deploys 10,000 humanoids in 2026, 50,000 by end-2027How: San Francisco-based Foundation publicly confirms cumulative humanoid manufacture of >=10,000 units in 2026 and on track for 50,000 by end-2027Source: https://interestingengineering.com/military/us-foundation-build-50000-humanoid-robots - SF Foundation: 40 robots 2025, 10,000 in 2026, 50,000 by end 2027conf 60%
- 2027-08-20pendingQ3 window check-in (75%)
- 2027-01-01 → 2028-06-30pendingCumulative humanoid robots deployed in SF Bay Area exceeds 5,000How: Industry tracker (Humanoids Daily, Bain) reports >5,000 humanoid robots operating commercially within SF Bay Area metro regionSource: https://www.bain.com/insights/humanoid-robots-from-demos-to-deployment-technology-report-2025/ - several hundred deployed 2025, low thousands by 2026-27conf 45%
- 2028-11-30pendingMore-humanoids-than-humans density NOT achieved in any SF block by 2028-11-30How: By target window end, no observed/reported SF block, district, or measurable area has humanoid:human ratio >1; Adcock prediction missesSource: Math: SF metro pop ~870k humans daily downtown footfall; even 50k humanoids globally is <1% locallyconf 92%Notes: Mathematical floor; this is the bear-case anchor. Expectation that full prediction misses by 2028.
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Evidence chain
Network propagation neighbors
Top incoming (parents)
Edges that influence THIS node's belief
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | S_HUMANOID_ENTERPRISE_2028 Humanoid R2: 100K+ enterprise by Nov 2028 | 50.0% | 0.550 | 0.050 | -0.080 |
| killer | TK08 Humanoid Capital Collapse (Figure/Apptronik Flop) | 22.0% | 0.050 | 0.550 | +0.060 |
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Adverse (5)
Prerequisites (2)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | S_HUMANOID_ENTERPRISE_2028 | Humanoid R2: 100K+ enterprise by Nov 2028 | humanoid_deployment | — |
| killer | TK08 | Humanoid Capital Collapse (Figure/Apptronik Flop) | — | — |
Dependents (0)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
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Raw metadata
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