<p>San Jose, California: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes humanoid robots are less than five years away from seeing wide use in manufacturing facilities.</p>.<p>Huang on Tuesday gave a keynote address in front of a packed hockey stadium during the nearly $3 trillion company's annual developer conference in San Jose, California.</p>.<p>Huang unveiled software tools that he said would help humanoid robots navigate the world more easily.</p>.<p>Speaking to a group of journalists after the speech, Huang was asked what signs would show that <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/artificial-intelligence">AI</a> had become ubiquitous.</p>.Ubisoft faces make-or-break moment with 'Assassin's Creed Shadows'.<p>Among other answers, Huang said it may be "when, literally, humanoid robots are wandering around, which is not five years away. This is not five-years-away problem, this is a few-years-away problem."</p>.<p>The manufacturing industry would likely adopt humanoid robots first because that industry has well-defined tasks that robots can handle in a controlled environment, he said.</p>.<p>"I think it ought to go to factories first. And the reason for that is because the domain is much more guard-railed, and the use case is much more specific," Huang said.</p>.<p>"The value of it is very, very easy to determine. The going rate for renting a human robot is probably $100,000 and I think it's pretty good economics." </p>
<p>San Jose, California: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes humanoid robots are less than five years away from seeing wide use in manufacturing facilities.</p>.<p>Huang on Tuesday gave a keynote address in front of a packed hockey stadium during the nearly $3 trillion company's annual developer conference in San Jose, California.</p>.<p>Huang unveiled software tools that he said would help humanoid robots navigate the world more easily.</p>.<p>Speaking to a group of journalists after the speech, Huang was asked what signs would show that <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/artificial-intelligence">AI</a> had become ubiquitous.</p>.Ubisoft faces make-or-break moment with 'Assassin's Creed Shadows'.<p>Among other answers, Huang said it may be "when, literally, humanoid robots are wandering around, which is not five years away. This is not five-years-away problem, this is a few-years-away problem."</p>.<p>The manufacturing industry would likely adopt humanoid robots first because that industry has well-defined tasks that robots can handle in a controlled environment, he said.</p>.<p>"I think it ought to go to factories first. And the reason for that is because the domain is much more guard-railed, and the use case is much more specific," Huang said.</p>.<p>"The value of it is very, very easy to determine. The going rate for renting a human robot is probably $100,000 and I think it's pretty good economics." </p>