NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said humanoid robots represent a $40 trillion total addressable market for labor automation. Derek Yan argued physical AI could be larger than electric vehicles or smartphones, citing Waymo’s autonomous driving as evidence the underlying technology stack works. The piece claims transformative production technology typically benefits suppliers more than headline operators. It links the “picks-and-shovels” pattern to the 1849 California Gold Rush, when suppliers built more durable wealth than miners. It then cites Henry Ford’s 1913 moving assembly line at Highland Park, where Model T chassis assembly time fell from about 12 hours to about 90 minutes, accelerating mass-market adoption within a decade.
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