{"id":139705,"date":"2025-09-12T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139705"},"modified":"2025-09-12T17:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:55:12","slug":"morgan-stanley-the-number-of-robots-that-resemble-and-act-like-humans-is-likely-to-reach-nearly-1-billion-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139705","title":{"rendered":"(Morgan Stanley) The number of robots that resemble and act like humans is likely to reach nearly 1 billion by 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By 2050, about 90% of humanoids, or about 930 million units, will likely be used for repetitive, simple, and structured work\u2014primarily industrial and commercial purposes. China is likely to have the highest number of humanoid robots in use by 2050, at 302.3 million, trailed by the U.S. at &nbsp;77.7 million (up from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.morganstanley.com\/ideas\/humanoid-robot-market-outlook-2024\">previous forecast<\/a>&nbsp;of 63 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe forecast for household usage is much more conservative, with only 80 million humanoids in homes by 2050,\u201d Jonas says. \u201cWe are not going to see a robot in every home overnight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creating a general-purpose humanoid that is capable of doing a vast array of useful tasks at home will require technological progress in both hardware and AI models, which should take about another decade. To get those humanoids into homes, prices need to decline significantly, in parallel with regulatory and societal acceptance of this use of humanoids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOnce we get to that stage, humanoid volume and penetration should pick up quickly,\u201d Jonas says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.morganstanley.com\/insights\/articles\/humanoid-robot-market-5-trillion-by-2050\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Humanoids: A $5 Trillion Market <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ArtificialInteligence?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ArtificialInteligence<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AI<\/a> Morgan Stanley sees <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Robots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Robots<\/a> taking over the jobs of real humans as a business opportunity &#x1f44d; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Humanoids?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Humanoids<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4u7fVI6D47\">pic.twitter.com\/4u7fVI6D47<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tom Boyle (@tomboylefilms) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomboylefilms\/status\/1930106063770268015?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 2050, about 90% of humanoids, or about 930 million units, will likely be used for repetitive, simple, and structured work\u2014primarily industrial and commercial purposes. China is likely to have the highest number of humanoid robots in use by 2050,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139705\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139708,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139705\/revisions\/139708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}