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“Perception is incredibly difficult, and the fact that perception is all but solved at this point is a really, really huge inflection point.”

“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 Digit V-Five, which is coming out later this year, is the first time that a humanoid robot, a robot which is balancing, can step out of a work cell and does not need a physical barrier between the robot and the person to maintain safety in this warehouse.”

“They will at some point. It's gonna need to go through the scaling and have 100,000 robots out there before that actually is real.”

“At that point, it's probably specialty automation doing those things, because it's just twenty-four-seven doing it, and a humanoid doesn't make sense. It's not the most efficient thing for that specific task. A humanoid is useful for walking into human environ…”

“You can teleoperate the robot and start to train from that data. You can give it animation input or motion capture input or any number of different things, but that's also got a real hard limit. Because a person controlling a robot is not really getting to wha…”

“These language models are trained off of the entire data on the internet. And that data does not exist for robot control.”

“20 out of 24 hours for our Digi V-Five robot.”

“How do we, in the United States anyway, how do we build our GDP? It's not a growing population. It's increased efficiency and capability, and the only way we could do that is more and more automation.”

“One arm is not quite enough to pick up big things. You can only pick up small things. Two arms, now you can pick up big things. Adding a third arm, it's hard to see the enough utility to make it worth fitting it in.”

“We do both. We do a capex for customers that prefer that. We also do robot as a service for customers that prefer that.”

“You know what, that was one of our very first use cases that we explored with Ford. And there's a nice video online of our very first digit robot getting out of a vehicle, walking up to someone's front porch, and dropping a package there. Stairs and everything…”