THE HUMANOID ROBOT RACE: THE NEW WORKERLESS GLOBAL FACTORY
"You're building machines that could replace human labor entirely." "...Yes." "Doesn't that terrify you?" "It should." Since ChatGPT first showed the world what AI could do, it has lived in one place — inside a screen. It could write, talk, reason, even see. But it could never touch anything. Never walk into a warehouse. Never pick up a box. That's over. The same race that built ChatGPT — the race to build the smartest AI — has quietly merged with a second race almost nobody noticed. The race to give that AI a body. And the company leading it is now one of the most valuable on Earth, building something its own CEO claims could end up more valuable than everything else it has ever made, combined. From a car factory that shut down overnight to build robot workers instead, to a country shipping forty times more of these machines than its biggest rival — this is the story of the humanoid robot race. And it's also the next cha...