humanoids will outnumber us within 15 years exactly because of this btw > elon predicts at least 10 billion humanoid robots by 2040 > getting there means building roughly 2 million every single day for the next 14 years (!!) > that's an enormous problem, the only solution is robots multiplying and building other robots > xpeng just opened the world's first automated production line for advanced humanoid robots > they're literally using robots to build more robots (>80% of the core manufacturing processes are already automated) > xpeng's taking the assembly-line approach they use to mass-produce cars and applying it to humanoids > the goal: produce millions of robots and bring the cost down enough for ordinary people to afford them > xpeng also plans to use those robots' experiences doing real jobs to improve their ai > imagine a robot keeps dropping a cup. engineers can use recordings of those attempts to train its AI to grip the cup better > then send the improved software to other robots running the same system > so one robot's mistakes can help make all the others better > and the more robots you have working in the world, the more examples engineers have to teach them new skills and fix what they're getting wrong so basically robots are giving birth to more robots and they're effectively raising each other, because each robot's mistakes become lessons that make the whole family smarter