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Oct 15, 2026
AI Just Got a Body: The $16B Shift to Physical AI & Humanoids
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2:13Nicolas BabinGUEST
And over 30 years later ...
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2:15Nicolas BabinGUEST
I mean, we started to work on it in 1993 with Sony, and so over, over 30 years later, uh, we can see that, you know, Aibo, which was the name of the robot dog, but we also had a humanoid robot called QRIO.
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2:27Nicolas BabinGUEST
Quest for Curiosity was actually the, uh, the real name of that robot.
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2:32Nicolas BabinGUEST
Actually, it's, it's, has helped other companies to improve their humanoid robots.
7 MINS LATER
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9:15Nicolas BabinGUEST
That I, I can tell you about that because Sony, obviously we sold, uh, Aibo the, the robot dog, as you said, the talking dog, which was around €2,000 and went down.
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9:25Nicolas BabinGUEST
We had even a, a version of the, of that robot that costed only n- only €900 over the course of six years when we sold the, the robots.
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9:36Nicolas BabinGUEST
But we had, as I mentioned, a humanoid robot called QRIO, which we could not sell because the price was, as our founder said, "It's gonna be the price of a very, very expensive car." So you're talking-
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9:48Nat SchoolerHOST
Ah, uh-huh, uh-huh