Taneja: Robotics adoption will be slower than expected
Hemant Taneja · Why AI will dwarf every tech revolution before it: robots, manufacturing, AR glasses from CES 2026 · Jan 14, 2026 · at 38:42
Hemant Taneja, CEO of General Catalyst, explains that unlike cloud LLMs, robotics lacks API hardware infrastructure to rapidly diffuse models.
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“I actually think robotics will be slower than people think in terms of really taking hold”
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