# New Industries May Absorb Humanoid Robots Before Households Do by Alexander Wissner-Gross > General-purpose humanoid robots may be absorbed first by industries that do not yet exist. As new capacity created orbital-data-center demand for launch systems, abundant robotic labor could create factories, data centers, space infrastructure, and other markets large enough to consume the capacity it unlocks. > **— Adapted from Alexander Wissner-Gross**, *Moonshots, October 7, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording and precise locator:** [2:04:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRdb8UmPnh0&t=7483s) — *The Fight Over Claude's Consciousness, AI's 1942 Moment, & Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things"*, Moonshots, October 7, 2026. - **Exact reconciled source excerpt:** “Having universal humanoid robotics—I don’t think we saturate that with domestic labor or even just with dirty, dull, dangerous jobs. My bet would be that it’s something new that comes online. Maybe it’s robots for building out Gigafactories, or data centers too cheap to meter, or space stations, or something new.” - **Editorial status:** The poster is explicitly labeled **Adapted from** because it consolidates spoken context into a self-contained proposition. It must not be represented as verbatim speech. Numerical claims, forecasts, legal interpretations, and claims about current organizations remain the speaker’s assertions unless separately verified. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/All Things Superintelligence Research - The Coming Manhattan Project - Moonshots|All Things Superintelligence Research — The Coming Manhattan Project — Moonshots]] preserves broadcast order, speaker attribution, timing, and the source-fidelity boundary. - **Preparation ledger:** [[research/All Things Superintelligence Research - The Coming Manhattan Project - Moonshots - Reminder and Wiki Preparation|Reminder and Wiki Preparation]] records candidate 37, its mechanism, evidence posture, and misreading risks. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Wiki source hub:** [[wiki/Moonshots - The Coming Manhattan Project|Moonshots — The Coming Manhattan Project]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Alexander Wissner-Gross|Alexander Wissner-Gross]] - [[wiki/Physical AI|Physical AI]] - [[wiki/Figure AI|Figure AI]] - [[wiki/Agent Swarm|Agent Swarm]] ## Share on Social Media ``` General-purpose humanoid robots may be absorbed first by industries that do not yet exist. As new capacity created orbital-data-center demand for launch systems, abundant robotic labor could create factories, data centers, space infrastructure, and other markets large enough to consume the capacity it unlocks. — Adapted from Alexander Wissner-Gross, Moonshots, October 7, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-alexander-wissner-gross-new-industries-may-absorb-humanoid-robots-before-households-do ```