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Professor Jonathan Hurst

4 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 29, 2026 by Professor Jonathan Hurst · across every show →

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Jul 29, 2026 bullish
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Hurst predicts robots will soon perform general, useful tasks
“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.”
Professor Jonathan Hurst Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 50:10 The $1/Hour Robot Is Coming: Four Industry Leaders Explain What’s Next
Jul 29, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hurst: AI perception for robotics is all but solved
“Perception is incredibly difficult, and the fact that perception is all but solved at this point is a really, really huge inflection point.”
Professor Jonathan Hurst Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 49:57 The $1/Hour Robot Is Coming: Four Industry Leaders Explain What’s Next
Jul 29, 2026 neutral
Insight
Hurst: Humanoid robots belong in human environments, not lights-out factories
“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…”
Professor Jonathan Hurst Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 1:01:36 The $1/Hour Robot Is Coming: Four Industry Leaders Explain What’s Next
Jul 29, 2026
Insight
Hurst: Increased automation is the only way to grow US GDP
“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.”
Professor Jonathan Hurst Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 1:00:53 The $1/Hour Robot Is Coming: Four Industry Leaders Explain What’s Next
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