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2025 Is the Year of the Humanoid Robot Factory Worker
Long confined to the lab, humanoids finally appear ready to work in manufacturing. There are just a few hurdles to get them to market.
But while the company’s dog-like Spot and warehouse robot Stretch are already deployed at industrial sites, the Hyundai pilot will be the first time Atlas is used in commercial manufacturing. In January, Musk said the company was set to build “several thousand” robots over the course of 2025—but in April he told investors production could be impacted by the restrictions on rare-earth metal exports China implemented in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs. “You can imagine a grocery or tractor supply store has one, and that robot can be in the backroom depalletizing, cleaning, stocking shelves, checking inventory, just a huge range of things,” says Hurst.
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