robotics
4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Sep 29, 2022 by Sam Altman · across every show →
Everything said about robotics, oldest first
Sep 29, 2022 negative
Altman: OpenAI paused robotics research because hardware and simulators were too limited
“Well, it turned out to be a mistake. I mentioned that Dota was a great environment. It turns out that robotics are a very hard environment. Robotics is hard, and it's not hard because the machine learning is hard. It's hard because the simulator is bad, the ro…”
Jan 19, 2023 positive
Ferguson: Robotics ML techniques translate directly to automated financial trading
“A lot of the techniques that we apply in robotics are basically taking in huge amounts of noisy data, trying to make sense of it, and then trying to come up with intelligent or hopefully reasonably intelligent actions, and all of that is very much on point for…”
Jul 13, 2023 bullish
Apr 13, 2026
Angle: Robotics is a problem-solving toolkit rather than humanoid machines
“This idea that robotics isn't a thing, it's a toolkit. Was early lesson that I was taught because when you see a robot to most people, they think humanoid, but given the journey I was on, robotics, was a box of parts that allowed you to make smart machines tha…”