2025 Is the Year of the Humanoid Robot Factory Worker

Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory. Tech giants are also getting in on the trend: Both Apple and Meta are rumored to be working on some kind of consumer-facing humanoid robot. A 2024 Goldman Sachs report estimates that humanoid robots will represent a $38 billion market by 2035—more than six times what the firm projected a year earlier. The basic promise of humanoid robots is that they will be able to switch between multiple tasks, just like their human peers. “We live in a human-first world,” Neelon says, “so we should build a robot that reflects that.”But there are challenges to getting humanoid robots to market.