humanoid robots

“Humanoid is the universal hardware form factor that can be dropped into any place in our world.”

“We believe the default user interface to the robot is speech. You, you're going to want to talk to the robot. We, even in an industrial setting, when you're unboxing the robot for the first time, we think the initialization process is, is speech.”

“Nobody's been able to deliver a commercial humanoid into a market in human history.”

“I think over a long enough period of time, Everybody will own a humanoid just to do work for them. And you will choose, like. Labor will be optional, and you'll choose to do work or not.”

“There's a lot of preconceived notions that these will be really expensive. I do not think they'll be expensive. I think you know, we're working on cost reduction and stuff now, like the robots we have now, we've showed, are expensive. They're not cheap. The wo…”

“You want to build like the equivalent of like the keyboard and mouse to the internet in the physical world. That equivalent is a human form. You can do everything a human can. And the world was optimized specifically for us.”

“My view here is that we need to get the humanoid robot figured out pre-AGI. And whether we need the humanoid to get there, like, as it relates to the timeline for AGI or not, what I think is a really quite dystopian future is if we have AGI's here, and AGI wan…”

“I would say the human node aspect is also very appealing because people can teleoperate it very easily. And so it's a data collection thing that is extremely helpful because people will be able to obviously very easily teleoperate it. I think that's usually ov…”

“Today, 20, 25, I think it's, it would be a leap of faith for any company to sell a humanoid robot or something like that and imply that it can do all of these things. Because that's, we're still, I think many years out from that, at least from meeting those ex…”

“Too much anthropomorphism can, I see I screwed up there, can it can imply like a set of human-like behaviors that don't exist in that product. And I think Rodney Brooks wrote an essay about this basically saying with robots in particular, the appearance of the…”

“One is there's going to be like some collapse of sentiment around a set of robotics companies next year, not because it like actually isn't as a field going to progress, but because, you know, people are beginning to project timelines and you know, not everybo…”