Robots

“Actually, should we be doing it? My answer would be no. It's not very socially responsible. We have a young demographic population, ah, to our advantage. So either we get the robots to help people find jobs, or we should not replace human beings with robots. W…”

“It is happening. As we speak, it's happening, but definitely not upscale, upper upscale in Lakshmi. How, see, if you go to a wedding, you'll have only robots serving you. That's not going to happen.”

“There is this visual of course, a robot delivering stuff in a hotel and moving around a hotel, which no doubt has Caught everyone's, you know, fancy over the last many years, and it is still yet to be fully rolled out, and I'm sure it will happen.”

“We're gonna go from, like, Waymo in, like, 15 cities to, like, robots folding your laundry in four years, three years from now, and it's gonna look really weird.”

“Where a lot of things will ultimately be done by robots construction, infrastructure, service, security. You know, right now you see a lot of stuff on Instagram or TikTok of Olympic races with robots, et cetera. I don't think anyone's gonna have any interest I…”

“If AIs could just automate AIR&D and automate, like, sort of the industrial process of building more computers, then you could quickly end up in a In a process where sort of like robots are building robots and the whole world is greatly transformed. And that v…”

“In the next couple years, robots are going to be able to do everything.”

“You need to have data to learn stuff, and everybody's robots were just sitting still, and it just felt like we have to get on this path where like, we're actually moving and physically interacting with the world at scale, and then we'll figure out all the rest…”

“When you have individuals that are able to just like have a little you know, little fleet of robots that can help them like you know, just build things that maybe would have taken Decades and large numbers of people, and now we can just iterate on that, like, …”

“We think about two brains, right? It's my simplified version of telling the stories. There's two brains. There's the brain that controls the physicality of the robot, which is what Boston Dynamics is known for. You know, the dynamic movement, reliability, the …”

“AI is really enabling that much more broad you know, context awareness for these robots, so people can see that this is going to be useful, generally doing many useful things very soon.”

“But there's always a massive sim to real gap. Things aren't simulated perfectly. And then, you know, as you pick up something in the real world and there's wave dynamics and there's condensation on the glass and the dynamics of the robot are not perfectly mode…”

“And then eventually, or maybe pretty soon, we have to build robots that can Automate that process to continue to drive the cost down. The cost of producing electricity, chips, the whole supply chain.”

“So I think there'll be a whole industry that's built out where given the data sets that are available, a lot of it is visual data and the right world models that are built around it. You can train these machines and I'm using machine very broadly or robots muc…”

“And I think the culmination point of that, which I've been talking about again for decades, is at some point in the not so distant future, we will have a robot that doesn't have to be super smart, but just smart enough to learn to operate all the already exist…”

“So it's trivial task for us. These are the tasks we hate doing. So we don't want to collaborate with robot. We want to delegate.”

“I'm very, you know, long on traditional human sports in terms of a business model, because The story is what matters, and everyone's on the same playing field, so when you put in, like, robots and all these perks and extra things and blah blah blah, I don't th…”

“The same way a human scientist would come in, you know, look at the results, take the sample out and go to the next one. Our robots do that today.”

“There's this AI training startup shift wants to clean your home for free, but the, they will have record cleaners as they scrub, vacuum, dust, tidy, wash, and use that footage to train robots.”

“We're trying to build AI that feels really human with all of our positives and our flaws as well. AI that behaves in human-like ways and that exists across multiple virtual surfaces and eventually into robots as well.”

“If a robot just suddenly turns and does all this stuff, it scares you. But if a robot looks before it turns and then goes, it's much less alarming.”

“So I'm not planning to replace Crew members with, ah, with robots.”

“The robots can charge through their feet at two kilowatts. So basically, like the battery lasts about four to five hours, then we can charge basically for an hour and go back and do work again.”

“Dude, these robots, When they work, it's going to be the biggest product ever invented in the history of mankind, bigger than the iPhone, bigger than anything. When you get a 20,000 dollar robot that can do, do work, it is the biggest product ever.”

“If you have enough robots in your training data, maybe what the model learned isn't to control one specific robot. What the model learned is something that's more abstract, which is how do I kind of learn a general notion of what it means to control any partic…”

“We ended in 2003. It was after Black Friday, after Cyber Monday, and we had sold a grand total of 50,000 robots from that year, and we're sitting on 250,000 robots.”

“And so the, your question, will robots displace that? I mean, maybe someday, but certainly not Not anywhere in the near future.”

“So if we can draw on data from many sources, many applications, many robots, then we can have a model that has a physical understanding, and it'll be much, much easier to put new applications on top of that platform.”

“And I think, you know, we, sometimes we think that, like, robots are going to be, like, one thing. Like, it's just like, you know, there's people, and now we're going to make, like, metal people, and that'll be, like, robots. But I don't think that's how it's …”

“I think that in the long run, this is not by any means a short term thing, but in the long run, I think there's lots of really exciting applications in medicine and surgery where we not only might in the long run not be limited to robots that look like humans,…”

“Most robots that are out there doing useful work are still running, you know, state-of-the-art technology from the 19 eighties.”

“I think robots are probably, like, 24 to 36 months behind other forms of LLMs that are, you know, just diffusing through society”

“China's got the Lunar New Year's coming up next week and Lunar New Year's Eve, the CCTV does this big spring festival gala with, you know, hundreds of millions people watch. It's going to be full of robots.”

“Just imagine we have a billion robots. It's going to be the largest repair industry on the planet.”

“The great industry of the future that we could spend a long time talking about is gonna be robots, right? AI in mechanical form which is gonna be, you know, I think the biggest industry that's ever been built.”

“And self-driving cars are much simpler robots. They're just metal boxes running on two D surfaces. And the goal is not to touch anything. Robot is three D things running in three D world. And the goal is to touch things.”

“These robots, they became quite commoditized, actually, just mixing powders, or mixing liquids, and then sending it to characterization.”

“We need to run A decent amount of the neural nets at, ah, kind of like, basically a couple hundred hertz, like a couple hundred times a second. There's no way you're gonna be able to do that fully off board. The robot, ah, would just be too slow.”

“I don't think robots are building the next data center, at least not right away. And so that is going to be the constraint. And so these jobs are not really going to go away.”

“If you take a twenty-year outlook, nobody's better positioned to do self-driving cars and robots than Tesla.”

“As soon as they have robots that can actually do functional work, they're gonna sell billions and billions. There's gonna be more robots than humans.”

“Houses are going to be redesigned, because right now, when we design houses, and we design robots, we design them to work for us, and the optimal robots aren't going to look anything like us at all.”

“Humans should get content for free again, because we've kind of paywalled way too much, frankly. And robots should pay a ton for it. Because again, every time a robot ingests something, it's in service of, Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of different hu…”

“Well, I think that if robots are going to be 30,000 dollars a piece from, what do you call it? Tesla? In two years? They're going to be 5000 in five years.”

“I would say over time there is going to be concern about the ethical safety of a robot, and that's why I think a Western developed robot will be more widely adopted than a non-US one.”

“Well, where my head is drawn to is some of the toy problems in academia, like t-shirt folding, and there are robots and neural networks now that can fold t-shirts.”

“And I think in a few years robots will Start to do super useful stuff.”

“The other thing is having sex with robots is going to make us worse at democracy.”

“I think that's the one thing that AI is not there yet. It will be probably with robots, as we see.”

“I have no doubt that humanity will move into an age where we cohabit with robots.”

“Suddenly we can actually create infinite universes. Some are for robots, some are for creativity, some are for socialization, some are for travel, some are for storytelling. It suddenly will enable us to live in a multiverse.”

“Someone will marry a robot probably in our lifetime.”

“We are actually in full commercial operation with thousands of robots in hundreds of locations.”

“You know, our robot has 10 cameras. It's constantly connected to the internet. It's really, it has a really loud siren when it's tampered with and so forth.”

“But in terms of actually how people treat robots, there's not much difference actually. People are actually really friendly towards, towards our robots. I understand it's really hard to believe, but that is actually true. It's completely true.”

“Our robots cross roads a 100,000 times a day. A 100,000 times a day, right? We have thousands of robots, robots, robots operating, right?”

“I mean, I think it looks really lopsided, right? Like if you're on the west coast, like if you're in LA, like if you talk to people in Santa Monica, like this is their norm, like to a lot of people that get predominantly robots.”

“We want to build a model that can control any robot to do any task.”

“The, let's say, 20 years from now, AI will have changed things enough that, you know, that just this pure capitalistic framework probably won't explain much because as AIs, both as sort of white-collar type work and as blue-collar workers, the robots will get …”

“In extreme cases, we're not going to have robots play cricket. You know, that's boring. We'll let, we'll reserve that just for the humans. Even if the robots could be, you know, way, way better, that's not interesting.”