Forbes January 25, 2025
John Koetsier

By 2026, we should have humanoid robots in private homes helping with laundry, vacuuming, and the dishes, at least in beta testing, says Peter Diamandis. By 2040, there could be as many as 10 billion globally in all areas of the economy, and their labor might be as cheap as $10 a day.

“If you lease it like you lease a car, a $30,000 car, your price point per month is 300 bucks,” says author, futurist, investor, doctor, and engineer Peter Diamandis in a recent TechFirst podcast. “And that translates amazingly to $10 a day and 40 cents an hour. So you’ve got labor that’s waiting for whatever your wish is. You know, clean up the house, go mow the...

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