Humanoid robots could reshape South Africa’s platinum group metals demand

ROBOCASH : The ‘Terminator’ has surprising implications for SA’s platinum group metals industry

Humanoid robots – if forecasts for their production and commercialisation play out – could potentially play the same role for platinum group metals demand in coming decades that the Clean Air Act did in the 1970s. And South Africa’s PGMs no longer carry the taint of apartheid and the ruthless exploitation of a Black migrant labour force that made America’s air cleaner.

By Ed Stoddard