Home and care robots. Humanoid and task robots aimed at the lifting, fetching, and watching that the care workforce cannot staff.
It is a product you buy, first appearing 2024–26 — Figure, Tesla Optimus, 1X.
It exists to relieve Cannot manage washing, dressing, eating, or moving alone. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without AI models and inference, Semiconductor manufacturing and Mining and critical materials. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
5 organisations in this map sell it, 2 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
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The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionHome and care robots
- FrictionCannot manage washing, dressing, eating, or moving alone
- Life phaseDecline
- Rooted inSafety
- Rooted inShelter
Relieves
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABB | $120B | public · ABBN | robotics, electrification, EV charging |
| Hyundai Motor Group | $45B | public · 005380 | Hyundai, Kia, Genesis |
| Figure AI | $39B | private | Figure 02/03 humanoid robots |
| 1X Technologies | $1.3B | private | NEO home humanoid |
| Boston Dynamics | private | Atlas humanoid, Spot, Stretch |