Agile Robots CEO says every person could own a humanoid. Roland Berger times $4T for 2050

Zhaopeng Chen, founder and CEO of Munich's Agile Robots, told Reuters on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 that the humanoid market could grow to 10 times the global auto industry within years. He argued every person, not every household, might someday have a mechanical companion.

"Instead of like one family has a car, I think every human being probably will be expected to have something like a humanoid to be accompanied with them," Chen said.

That is a CEO forecast, not a store page. Roland Berger's 2026 humanoid study is the better number sheet. It puts OEM-level humanoids at about $300 billion by 2035 in a baseline case, up to $750 billion in an optimistic case, then up to $2 trillion (baseline) and $4 trillion (optimistic) by 2050. StratNews and the Reuters wrap both cite the $4 trillion figure without that year. The year matters.

What the sources actually say

• Chen / Reuters: one humanoid per person, market many times autos, "within years"
• Roland Berger: up to $750B by 2035, up to $4T by 2050, automotive-scale only in the long case
• Agile Robots: sales €320 million ($370 million) in 2025, aiming to double in 2026; about $1.5 billion raised, including SoftBank and Xiaomi
• Bank of America, via Reuters: about 20,000 humanoids shipped worldwide last year, 95% from Chinese makers

Agile Robots is an industrial automation shop (arms, cobots, and the Agile ONE factory humanoid). The Robot Report covers Agile ONE as a plant coworker, not a living-room SKU. There is no public home MSRP.

Our June roundup of Barclays' $200 billion by 2035 sits in the same decade as Roland Berger's $300–750 billion OEM band. Chen's 10x-autos line sits far above both.

Home angle

Chen's "every human" companion is the part shoppers will hear. Catalog reality is still wave 1: factories and labs. Unitree G1 is the Unitree humanoid you can actually price, from $13,500 on the official shop. Figure 02 stays an enterprise prototype with no public MSRP. NEO Gamma is a US Early Access pre-order at $20,000 (or $499/mo), not a mass appliance. Apollo is logistics-first.

Roland Berger also talks about $2/hour operating cost in plants and labor shortages pulling manufacturing back to Europe. That is a factory thesis. It does not put a humanoid in your kitchen this year.

What this means for HomeBotRadar

Agile ONE is not joining the catalog. We track home and companion robots with buyer-facing specs. A Munich industrial humanoid with no consumer cart does not get a row.

We are not moving readiness or reality scores on Unitree G1, Figure 02, or NEO Gamma because a CEO resized the market. Open those three on Compare if you want machines you can actually stack. Treat $4 trillion as a 2050 ceiling in Roland Berger's optimistic case, not a 2026 shopping list.