Amanda McMaster
Executive, Boston Dynamics. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Amanda McMaster is a robotics executive associated with Boston Dynamics. She is known for discussing the deployment of Spot and Atlas robots as well as robotics security risks.
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Everything Amanda McMaster said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
McMaster: Chinese quadruped robots in US are leaking data to China
“We've already heard about leaks that are happening with some of the quadrupeds that you're seeing in the United States and being back channeled back to China.”
McMaster: Spot is the most deployed mobile autonomous robot on Earth
“It is the it is the mobile autonomous robot that's used more than any other on the planet right now.”
McMaster: Weaponizing robots is a distraction from Boston Dynamics' core focus
“For what we're trying to do right now in industrial use cases, it's a distraction for our business.”
Boston Dynamics: Spot robot achieves over 3,000 hours between human interventions
“We think about in terms of mean time between intervention, and we're at over 3000 hours.”
Boston Dynamics: Atlas humanoid robot autonomously swaps its own batteries
“No Atlas does it itself. So Atlas will have two batteries, so it turns its torso around, and you replace one and put it with the other one, it always has a backup.”
McMaster: Human workers often skip assigned routine inspection tasks
“Humans weren't doing the task, even if they were tasked with it, they weren't actually doing it.”
McMaster: Labor replacement will inevitably be used as a robotics ROI metric
“There's going to be an element of labor replacement for this as a metric, because it's easy.”
McMaster: Boston Dynamics is focused on real-world deployment, not R&D
“Yeah, we are big on deploying robots, so it's no longer an AI lab. It's not a research and development company anymore. We're now focused on real world deployment.”
McMaster: Boston Dynamics has over 500 customers across 46 countries
“At this point we have over 500 customers, over 46 countries.”
McMaster: Industrial robotics customers require an ROI under two years
“And customers need to see your ROI in under two years.”
Boston Dynamics will likely offer Atlas as robot-as-a-service
“We'll be doing a, probably a robot as a service model, likely with Atlas.”
McMaster: Boston Dynamics' Spot robot costs $100k to $300k fully loaded
“Ranges anywhere between, you know, a 100,000 dollars for the base robot, all the way up to 300,000 when we're fully loaded with services, integration deployed.”
McMaster: Boston Dynamics focuses on labor augmentation over replacement for Spot
“We haven't necessarily looked at labor replacement for a spot. While, while that is a metric you might look at, we thought about, you know, how do we bring spots in there to augment human labor?”
McMaster: Boston Dynamics splits robot compute between onboard physical control and cloud reasoning
“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 …”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Amanda's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 ALL-INLEDGER | Executive, Boston Dynamics | 1 | 15 | 50% 1/2 | full record on All-In → |