Today, after a delicious lunch, my wife and I didn't talk for half an hour. Before our afternoon nap, we decided to read. I love this silence and the feeling of being there. We lay in the same bed, each under a warm blanket, and read. My wife was reading something about gardening on her smartphone, and I was reading Isaac Asimov's robot stories on a 10-inch e-reader.
I remembered your family readings, @tarazkp, and asked my children to read school textbooks :) There was silence in the house.
My wife and I didn't say a single word for half an hour; we were reading.
I read the first story from 1942, titled "Robot AL-76 Goes Astray." It's a sci-fi story with good humor, simple even for a child, and short (15 pages). It's about a robot who did something that surprised people. I remember a 1967 Soviet filmstrip based on this story. The 1960s saw a surge in translated American science fiction.
The entire filmstrip can be viewed here
In the USSR, filmstrips were silent, and this helped children learn to read. The bright images on a white sheet and the beam of a slide projector in a dark room were magical.
Isaac Asimov's second story about robots was even more interesting than the first. The story was called "Victory Unintentional" and was also written in 1942, at the height of World War II. This is a story about three Earth robots who arrived on Jupiter and encountered a very aggressive local population. I really enjoyed reading this story and comparing the Jupiterians to some people :)
The story is written with good humor and has a happy ending.
Reading these stories, I thought about how early Asimov introduced us to images of robotic assistants for people, and how far we still are from real human-like robot assistants.
I recently read an article that only 6,000 and 5,000 humanoid robots were sold by two leading Chinese companies in 2025. For example, Unitree sold 6,000 humanoid robots at $13,000 each. But they plan to deliver 100,000 robots by 2026.
Given this information, I wanted to know if this company's shares were traded on the stock exchange. It turned out that the IPO would be in 2026, but for now, the shares are trading pre-IPO.
I've already seen hundreds of tokenized shares on the Solana blockchain, and I hope these companies' shares will also be tokenized. It's very convenient for investors to have tokenized shares of leading humanoid robot companies in their wallets alongside HIVE and SOL.
Today, you can already buy tokenized Tesla shares on the Solana blockchain – TSLAX. Elon Musk promises to launch mass production of Optimus robots by the end of 2026, but I think it will only be a few thousand units.
It will likely be another five years before we see millions of humanoid robots produced. And the 2030s will mark the beginning of the era of humanoid robot assistants.
