As humanoid robots move from research labs toward factories, workplaces, and other real-world environments, a new economy is beginning to take shape around Physical AI. The Humanoid Economy: What Physical AI Means for Investment, Industry, and the Future of Work, by Silicon Valley investor and humanoid robotics ecosystem builder Modar Alaoui, examines the forces driving that shift and what it could mean as humanoids move toward commercial scale. The book will be published by Wiley on October 13, 2026.
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The Humanoid Economy by Modar Alaoui, published by Wiley.
The book looks beyond individual robots and companies to examine the technology, capital, infrastructure, policy, and human acceptance required for humanoids to reach meaningful commercial scale. It also explores the implications for labor, investment, industrial strategy, and global competition.
“Humanoid robots are now creating new markets, business models, and ways of working,” said Alaoui. “The economic opportunity could extend beyond the mobile and internet economies combined. That scale will come from the capabilities humanoids unlock, the infrastructure built around them, and the labor markets they reshape. Physical AI is becoming more than an industry. It is becoming an economy.”
The Emerging Humanoid Economy
Homes, factories, warehouses, offices, tools, vehicles, and much of the physical world have been designed around the human body. Humanoid robots offer a path toward deploying increasingly capable AI systems within those existing environments. At the same time, advances in computer vision, sensor fusion, artificial intelligence, compute, actuation, and embodied intelligence are converging with labor shortages, demographic change, and growing investment in automation.
The Humanoid Economy examines what happens when these forces come together and what must still happen for humanoids to move from demonstrations and early deployments to commercial scale.
Across seven chapters, Alaoui examines why humanoids are emerging, the infrastructure required around them, how humanoids are built and funded, the importance of cultural acceptance, and the global competition surrounding Physical AI.
The book is intended for investors, business leaders, policymakers, and builders seeking to understand both the opportunities and challenges created by the transition from digital AI to AI that can operate in the physical world.
About Modar Alaoui
Modar Alaoui is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and entrepreneur focused on humanoid robotics and Physical AI. He is founder and general partner of ALM Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on humanoids, Physical AI, and spatial intelligence; founder and chair of Humanoids Summit, a global forum with editions in Silicon Valley, London, Tokyo, and Seoul; founder and chair of the Bay Area Robotics Association; and creator of International Humanoids Day.
Earlier, Alaoui founded Eyeris, where he developed computer vision and sensor-fusion AI systems for in-cabin sensing in autonomous and highly automated vehicles. His experience spanned software and hardware across perception, edge compute, and human-machine interaction. Alaoui’s work and perspectives have been featured by Bloomberg, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Wired, Forbes, and other media.
Publication and Preorder Information
The Humanoid Economy will be published by Wiley and released October 13, 2026.
Author: Modar Alaoui
Publisher: Wiley
Format: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook
Audiobook Narrator: Brandon Pollock
ISBN: 978-1-394-45364-1
The book is available for preorder now through major booksellers.
For retailer options, audiobook information, book details, and information about the author, visit: TheHumanoidEconomy.com
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