Hexagon doesn’t currently have any miners on its AEON humanoid partner board and they are probably phase-two rollout targets, at best, on its list of viable markets. But that might change fast in a world Morgan Stanley thinks could be buying US$5 trillion of humanoid robots within 25 years.
A month that saw a copper mine relaunch in Utah, USA, featuring a Boston Dynamics quadruped in its ‘new-mine-in-a-new-age’ promotion ended with senior Hexagon executives saying at the Swedish company’s latest capital markets day they saw an inflection point in “a few years” when a humanoid would take a pivotal step on the path to independent operation in complex environments.
Hexagon robotics president Arnaud Robert told the London meeting zero-shot learning for robots was among fundamental shifts in the market that would be transformative. Other changes would see humanoid uses in specific work environments multiply and market demand and sales volumes escalate, driving hardware costs down.
