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Humanoid robot market may surpass $5 trillion by 2050, investment bank says

Morgan Stanley, a New York City-based multinational investment bank and financial services company, anticipates the humanoid robot market could surpass $5 trillion by 2050.

“Adoption should be relatively slow until the mid-2030s, accelerating in the late 2030s and 2040s,” Adam Jonas, Morgan Stanley’s head of global autos and shared mobility research, said. The presented prototype contains 77% Russian-made components. Its silicon skin allows it to express a full range of emotions. AIDOL is capable of expressing more than 12 basic emotions and hundreds of microexpressions, Vitukhin told the news agency.

AIDOL's debut comes weeks after NEO, a humanoid robot created by the California-based AI and robotics company 1X, a became available for preorder. A Wall Street Journal video of NEO showed it similarly struggling to accomplish basic tasks. Watch Russia's first humanoid robot fall on its face

Russia's first humanoid robot loss its balance and landed face first during its debut in Moscow.

A highly anticipated Russian humanoid robot's debut fell flat when the machine face-planted during a live presentation in Moscow this week.