Chen: First consumer robots will focus on navigation rather than physical manipulation
Peter Chen · No Priors Ep. 48 | With Covariant CEO Peter Chen · Jan 24, 2024 · at 36:18
Peter Chen, co-founder and CEO of robotics company Covariant, discusses likely form factors for consumer-facing intelligent robots with Sarah Guo on No Priors.
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“If I have to guess, it probably would be a home robot that don't involve much manipulation. So think of it as like a home robot that might be like a Roomba. It can follow you around, like you can talk to it. So like it has that navigation of movement aspects of it, but not necessarily the manipulation aspects of it, like not actually manipulating the physical world around it. I think that would be the most technologically feasible version. So think of it as similar to Amazon's astro robot, like this kind of like cute robot that has two wheels that can follow you around and someone calls it can go there. And so like, I think that type of Form factor would probably be like when we would see it earlier.”
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