Maples: High-fidelity digital simulation will precede physical manufacturing for everything possible
Mike Maples, Jr. · Mike Maples, Jr. & Reid Hoffman: Advice from two of the world's top investors | Masters of Scale · Jul 18, 2024 · at 55:22
Floodgate founding partner Mike Maples Jr. discusses how high-fidelity AI simulation is poised to transform robotics and physical manufacturing.
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“Everything in the world of atoms that can be simulated and simulated in a way that's very high fidelity description of how it operates, I think will be. And ironically, we'll be building some of these robots after we've built the virtual robot, after we get it to work in a virtual world completely, and then we'll say, okay, now push three D print and have high confidence that the thing's going to work because we've gotten it to work without having to struggle with it in the world of atoms.”
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