Boris Sofman

Co-Founder and CEO, Bedrock Robotics · 0 appearances on the record.

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Boris Sofman is a roboticist and entrepreneur who leads Bedrock Robotics, developing retrofit autonomy systems for heavy construction equipment. He previously co-founded the consumer robotics company Anki and later served as Director of Engineering and Head of Trucking at Waymo.

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The record, in short

What the tape says about how Boris argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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276 words/min while actually speaking · 0.4 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Boris Sofman: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to 4,737 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Boris Sofman is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

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Everything Boris Sofman said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

The other half of the tape: Boris Sofman's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 1 episode on the a16z Podcast. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

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Statements about Boris Sofman, by other people (3)

Insight

Sofman: Cute robot designs make users forgiving of technical mistakes

“And people become forgiving of any limitations or mistakes that the robot then makes.”

Boris Soffman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:15 a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots

Opinion

Sofman: Robotic manipulation lags autonomous driving by five to six years

“Manipulation is today is probably where autonomous driving was five or six years ago, where you can already see the capability starting to take form, but the reliability and cost constraints are still pretty prohibitive, but you can kind of extrapolate where i…”

Boris Soffman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:15 a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sofman: Depth camera costs dropped precipitously over past three to five years

“Like now in our future products, we can start putting in depth cameras, which give you a three D model of an environment at the cost, cost that would have been unimaginable five years ago or even three years ago.”

Boris Soffman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:40 a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots

Every mention by year

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2019 3 mentions in 1 episode