Why Humanoid Robots Are So Hard To Mass-Produce in the U.S. | Cost of Tomorrow
Robots are already transforming factories and warehouses. But the vision of autonomous machines working almost anywhere remains far from a reality. What will it take to get us there?
00:00 The future potential of robots
00:50 The first thing standing in the way: Manufacturing
01:17 Robots on the job
03:01 Inside a robot factory
03:54 The supply chain problem
05:05 Cost of humanoid robots
06:04 Building a robot from scratch
07:52 Why mass production is so hard
09:10 How vertical integration helps
11:10 Raw materials and chips
13:01 Maintenance and reliability
14:00 What’s at stake: Robots and society
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