Jensen Huang: Robots will create job opportunities

The controversy surrounding how the rise of the robotics industry will impact the job market persists. Pessimists believe that robots will cause large - scale unemployment, while optimists think that robots will create more new jobs.

On Tuesday local time, Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, shared his latest insights . Huang described robots as "AI immigrants" and said that they can solve the global labor shortage problem that is constraining the development of the manufacturing industry.

The head of this globally leading AI chip company holds a completely opposite view to the concerns that robots will replace human workers.

"Having robots will create new job opportunities," Huang said at a press Q&A session during the CES in Las Vegas. "We need more AI immigrants to enter the production workshops and take over the jobs that we may no longer want to do."

Huang believes that a "robot revolution" will make up for the labor gap caused by population aging and population decline and further drive economic growth.

"When the economy grows, we will naturally hire more employees," Huang said. He pointed out that due to demographic changes, the global labor gap has reached the level of tens of millions.

NVIDIA is investing heavily in researching and developing basic software that enables robots to operate normally in multiple industries, such as manufacturing, retail, and healthcare.

Huang's view is consistent with those of other Silicon Valley tech leaders, especially Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. Musk also often advocates for the development of automation technology, citing population decline and an aging workforce.

During an interview at the CES on Tuesday, Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, said that she believes AI will not replace humans but will change the recruitment direction of enterprises. She claimed that AI technology has not slowed down the recruitment speed of AMD, but candidates who "truly master and apply this technology" have become the company's top - priority recruitment targets.

Frequent Appearance of Robot Products and Technologies

This year's CES will last until Friday, and approximately 130,000 people are expected to attend. Robots are one of the core attractions of this exhibition. Companies hope that their robot products can shed the label of "novelty" and truly enter the mainstream market as practical devices.

At this year's CES, many companies have launched products and technologies related to robots. NVIDIA released new open - source models and data, NVIDIA Cosmos and GR00T, for robot learning and reasoning. It also released Isaac Lab - Arena for robot evaluation and the edge - to - cloud computing framework OSMO to simplify the robot training workflow.

LG publicly showcased its home - oriented AI robot CLOiD for the first time during the CES 2026 and said that it can perform various household tasks, such as folding clothes, cleaning the dishwasher, and delivering food.

On Monday at the CES, Hyundai Motor Company presented the mass - produced version of the Atlas humanoid robot developed by its subsidiary, Boston Dynamics. The company also announced that it plans to deploy humanoid robots at its manufacturing plant in Georgia, the United States, starting in 2028.

This article is from the WeChat official account "Science and Innovation Daily". The author is Bian Chun. It is published by 36Kr with permission.