At 300,000 human births a day, robots matching birth-rate output could start replacing us
JosephJacks_ · x · 2026-09-04
The author argues that once humans can produce human-equivalent robots at the same rate as the birth rate, the species will start being replaced.
His baseline: only 300,000 babies are born daily (130 million a year), a shockingly low bar for robot production capacity to match.
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