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
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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…”
Bob McGrew Aug 18, 2023 ▶ 18:17 Ep 66: Bob McGrew — the Superstar Palantir Alum Leading OpenAI's Transformative Research Projects · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 18, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
McGrew: Robotics will probably require AI to figure out robot manufacturing
“Robotics are probably going to need AI to write that, to figure out how to build robots for us.”
Bob McGrew Aug 18, 2023 ▶ 21:31 Ep 66: Bob McGrew — the Superstar Palantir Alum Leading OpenAI's Transformative Research Projects · Joe Lonsdale
Jan 31, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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…”
Guillaume Verdon Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 38:30 Ep 76: Accelerate or Die! Guillaume Verdon and the e/acc Movement · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 3, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2035
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 …”
Marc Andreessen Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 20:27 From ChatGPT to Billions of Robots: Marc Andreessen’s Prediction · Joe Lonsdale
Sep 25, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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.”
Zachary Levi Sep 25, 2025 ▶ 43:40 What Happens When AI Can Do Every Job? · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 24, 2026 positive
Insight
Florence: Simple robotic grippers paired with high intelligence can accomplish most tasks
“Pairing human-level intelligence with even very simple you know, as you said, Vivek end-effectors, like, you can really accomplish a lot in the world.”
Pete Florence Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 10:44 Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge
Aug 24, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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…”
Pete Florence Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 31:31 Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge
Aug 24, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Florence: Gen-0 was the first model demonstrating scaling laws in robotics
“It was the first model to show scaling laws really exist in, in robotics in, in in really in, in any significant way, I would say.”
Pete Florence Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 24:42 Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge
Aug 24, 2026 neutral
Insight
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…”
Pete Florence Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 3:25 Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge
Aug 24, 2026 bullish
Insight
Florence: Model intelligence, not mechanical ability, has always blocked robotics progress
“The main blocker the entire time has been the intelligence, not so much like the sort of mechanical ability.”
Pete Florence Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 12:04 Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge
Aug 24, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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 …”
Joe Lonsdale Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 27:28 Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge
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