Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedSpeaker unverified: belief
1 Feb 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
“I think for certain things, yes, there will be humanoid robots because it’s just amenable to the environment.”
— Speaker unverified
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Speaker unverified
- Attribution
- Not verified from this transcript
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 1 Feb 2026
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Humanoid form? Maybe half-humanoid. We’ll see. I think for certain things, yes, there will be humanoid robots because it’s just amenable to the environment. But for certain tasks, it might not make sense. What’s harder to imagine is how we interact with devices and what humans do with them. I’m pretty sure it will not be the cellphone or the laptop. Will it be implants? I mean, it has to be brain-computer interfaces, right? I mean, 100 years from now, it has to—given the progress we’re seeing now— —there has to be, unless there’s legitimately a complete alteration of how we interact with reality.…
Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.