robotics
11 statements across 5 episodes · 8 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Aug 18, 2023 by Bob McGrew · across every show →
Everything said about robotics, oldest first
Aug 18, 2023 positive
McGrew: OpenAI solved simulated robotic Rubik's cube in two weeks
“The Dota II team, Jakub Pachoki, who was doing this, had developed a
A technique that allowed you to put lots of data and compute into solving the problem. And it was really working for Dota. And he came over and started doing this for robotics. And we went f…”
Aug 18, 2023 neutral
Jan 31, 2024 bullish
Verdon: Robotics Will Boom Within a Few Years to Solve Blue-Collar Intelligence
“I think robotics is gonna see a boom in, in the coming years as we, you know, cross that threshold of having sort of you know, match, being able to have synthetic white collar intelligence. I think there's a few year gap between we'll be, Until we can solve mo…”
Jul 3, 2025 bullish
Andreessen: General-purpose robotics will scale massively over the next decade
“These human robots, like the general purpose robotics thing is going to happen, and it's going to happen in the next decade, and it's going to happen at giant scale, and I think there's a plausible argument, which Elon also believes, that robotics is going to …”
Sep 25, 2025 bearish
Levi Predicts AI and Robotics Will Soon Perform Every Human Job
“So, very, very, very, very, very soon, we are going to find ourselves in a reality where AI, coupled with robotics, can essentially do every job.
Not just the jobs we don't want to do.
It can do any job and every job, even the jobs that we really like to do.”
Aug 24, 2026 positive
Aug 24, 2026 bullish
Florence: Generalist lab robotics can enable ten times more scientific research per year
“Of course, like, different types of scientific automation have, has existed for decades, but very generalized capabilities to like, be in a science lab and use your hands to pull off all the manipulations that are needed to run all these scientific experiments…”
Aug 24, 2026 positive
Aug 24, 2026 neutral
Florence: Early robotics research was constrained by assumptions of data scarcity
“The place that everybody was coming to it from was just assuming that we'll never have a lot of data for robotics, and we need to do everything we can to try and design our system smarter, or like, figure out tricks along the way to try and get robotics starte…”
Aug 24, 2026 bullish
Aug 24, 2026 bullish
Lonsdale: Robotics will become important to the world in late 2020s
“If you would have asked me, like, in, like, last year, frankly, I would have said, well, yes, I do think these things are going to be really important to the world in the twenty-thirties, and now just understanding what's going on, it seems like they're going …”