robotics

16 statements across 14 episodes · 9 bullish · 3 bearish · 12 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Greg Lynn · across every show →

Everything said about robotics, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Contradicted
Lynn: 60% of Swiss construction projects utilize robotics
“60% of projects built in Switzerland use robotics at some significant level in the construction process.”
Greg Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:59 a16z Podcast | Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Insight
Sofman: Giving robots human voices sets unachievable expectations for intelligence
“Yeah, because the moment you have a voice, there's an expectation of intelligence that technology wasn't ready to meet yet.”
Boris Soffman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:12 a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots
Mar 5, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Casado: There is now real line of sight to economically viable embodied AGI
“And if you really want some prognostication for this is all going, I mean, for the first time, I say there is actually real line of sight to embodied AGI. And by embodied AGI, I mean, something that's economically viable. So you don't have a bunch of robots th…”
Martin Casado Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 9:45 The Future of AI Is Amazing
May 20, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Average homes will feature robotic automation within 10 to 30 years
“We may be on the verge of a robotics revolution such that, you know, the house that, you know, sort of the common person's house in, in, in 10 years, you know, or certainly 2030 years, you know, I mean, we, you know, it's the Jetsons, right?”
Marc Andreessen May 20, 2024 ▶ 59:45 The Future of the American Dream
Apr 23, 2025 negative
Insight
Vance: Building physical world businesses is harder than digital media
“And they know that as hard as it is to build a business in digital media, it's still harder to build one in robotics or life sciences or energy in what we call the world of atoms.”
J.D. Vance Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 9:57 JD Vance on the Future of America
Aug 5, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: The upcoming shift in AI is embodied robotics
“But there's another turn on AI that's coming, which is the turn to embodied physical AI, which is robotics.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 5, 2025 ▶ 0:18 Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
Aug 5, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: General-purpose robotics will be the world's largest industry within a decade
“Like, the general purpose robotics Thing is going to happen, and it's going to happen in the next decade, and it's going to happen at giant scale, and I think there's a plausible argument, which Elon also believes, that robotics is going to be the biggest indu…”
Marc Andreessen Aug 5, 2025 ▶ 20:25 Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
Sep 25, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pachocki: Energy and robotics physical constraints will soon become major AI focuses
“I think more broadly than compute, there is physical constraints of, well, energy, but also like, you know, at some point, not too far, like robotics will become a major focus. And so so I think thinking about like the physical constraints is, is, is going to …”
Jakub Pachocki Sep 25, 2025 ▶ 46:28 From Vibe Coding to Vibe Researching: OpenAI’s Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki
Oct 20, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rampell: Labor shortages make Japan the global leader in robotics adoption
“This is why Japan is a leader in robotics because they can't hire anybody.”
Alex Rampell Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 17:20 Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Labor
Nov 12, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Krishna: Robotics, 3D printing, and material science will lower home construction costs
“And so there are other things that I think will improve as we think about like the future, like the cost of building a home has got to come down. Right. And I think things like robotics three D printing, you know, advancements in material science will help wit…”
Varun Krishna Nov 12, 2025 ▶ 8:27 Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
Nov 24, 2025
Assertion Supported
Yafah Edelman: Robotics training runs use 100x less compute than frontier LLMs
“What we found is that like compute it, the training runs that are being used for robotics are like a hundred times smaller than the training runs that are being used for Than the training runs that are being used for, like, frontier models.”
Yafah Edelman Nov 24, 2025 ▶ 47:40 The 2045 Superintelligence Timeline: Epoch AI’s Data-Driven Forecast
Jan 7, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: China leads robotics due to its existing electromechanical supply chain
“China kind of starts out ahead on robotics, because they're just ahead on so many of the components that go into robots because the, you know, this sort of, like I said, this, the kind of entire supply chain of, like, electromechanical things, you know, basica…”
Marc Andreessen Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 29:23 Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
Aug 13, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Kalanick: Atoms deploys robotics to automate food production
“So we have robotics that basically do the production of food.”
Travis Kalanick Aug 13, 2026 ▶ 8:03 Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World
Sep 4, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Fei-Fei Li: The biggest problem in robotics is data, not chips yet
“We should zoom out and recognize the biggest problem right now in robotics is actually data. One day it'll be chips, but for now it's data.”
Fei-Fei Li Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 30:50 Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence
Sep 4, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fei-Fei Li: No existing frontier foundation model is robust enough for robotics
“That's just the first part of this, is meeting the robotics needs in the current technology, because we don't yet have a frontier foundation model that's robust enough for robotics.”
Fei-Fei Li Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 31:57 Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence
Sep 10, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2036
George predicts robotics will surpass language AI categories within ten years
“We are nowhere on robotics, but I think robotics is going to be bigger than the language stuff. And I think it's going to happen in the next 10 years.”
David George Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 45:21 Why Investors Are Rethinking Everything for the AI Era
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