Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

any counterprediction that it's not going to be the case that humanoids pass humans by the end of the 2030s.

What I think is perhaps even more interesting is what does a post-humanoid robot form factor look like?

Salim, I know you like to add lots of arms.

That's your... Wheels, anything.

That's your favorite body shape.

But I think there are many problems...

I think they're, you know, he's Indian.

I remember Shiva as a destroyer.

Let's just point that out.

To point out, there are more exotic body shapes that I would expect to see by 2040 that will make humanoid shapes look positively prosaic.

I do expect by 2040 we're going to get our nanorobots, for example, our Drexlerian nanorobots.

I would expect many, many trillions of those to be in our solar system.

And I think we look back from 2040 at this prediction of 10 billion plus and we'll laugh at ourselves.

This will be the equivalent of predicting atomic vacuum cleaners to housewives from the 1950s.

Well, of course, we're going to have 10 billion plus humanoids.

But what about the nanorobots?

I'll just comment.

There's a bit of obvious historic irony here.

China has come full circle from communism to anarcho capitalism back to communism again.

And it's maybe just a bit ironic that China is leading the world in terms of