How to Mass-Manufacture Humanoid Robots

What kind of materials, minerals, and supply chain would we need to create ‘Westworld’-style hosts or ‘Blade Runner’ replicants en masse?

Ingrid Burrington
OneZero
Published in
12 min readMar 18, 2020

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An illustration of a humanoid robot being grown in a bubble.
Illustration: Sandro Rybak

“I“I just do eyes!” may not be the most iconic words spoken in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, but they gesture toward a whole series of worldbuilding questions that have…

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Ingrid Burrington
OneZero

Precarious author (Networks of New York), educator, and artist (currently, Pioneer Works).