Lubbershane: Robotics feasibility depends on the length of edge-case tails
Andy Lubershane · The coming robotics wave · Mar 20, 2025 · at 32:32
Andy Lubbershane of Energy Impact Partners compares the feasibility of commercial field robotics like solar installation against fully autonomous vehicles.
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“I think the question you have to ask if you're considering a robotic solution is just, like, how long is the tail of weird stuff that might come up, that it might have to deal with, and in, Autonomy, the autonomous vehicle case, that tail is extremely long, right? Like, you're gonna encounter some weird shit in a city, in San Francisco, driving along the streets. Everything is sort of an exception, where, whereas, you know in a solar field, there's a lot of exceptions to the norm you're gonna encounter, but you know, it's manageable to be able to build a robotic system, you know, relatively quickly that can, you That can do, take a lot of significant human labor out of the equation.”
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