Adams

12 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 13, 2026 by Travis Kalanick · said 3 times in 2 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Mar 13, 2026 bearish
Insight
Specialized Wheeled Robots Vastly Outperform Humanoids in Industrial Applications
“Because if you're gonna do specialized robots, not humanoids, but specialized robots, They need to have wheels. Right? I like to say, like, if you saw the Beijing, in Beijing, they had the humanoid Olympics. And the half marathon, and you're watching the human…”
Travis Kalanick Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 17:18 FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup
Mar 13, 2026
Disclosure
Atoms Built a Fully Operational Restaurant to Deploy Its First Food Robot
“So my roboticist team in Pittsburgh made a restaurant that is the restaurant that our first robot went into because we had to make sure that we understood how a restaurant worked. We had to make sure that this wasn't just a machine that made food, but a machin…”
Travis Kalanick Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 44:17 FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup
Mar 13, 2026
Assertion Supported
Ex-Uber ATG Head Eric Meyhofer Runs Atoms Robotics Unit Lab 37
“My head of the advanced technology group at Uber is running my robotics division at Adams. It's called lab 37 in Pittsburgh. No, no, that's Eric, my offer.”
Travis Kalanick Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 37:44 FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup
Mar 13, 2026
Disclosure
City Storage Systems Emerges From Stealth Mode and Rebrands as Atoms
“Today we sort of came out and we renamed the company. We renamed what we do. We call it Adams.”
Travis Kalanick Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 4:06 FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup
Mar 13, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Atoms Operates Physical Kitchen Facilities Housing 30 Restaurants Each
“So right now I have these facilities. There's 30 restaurants in each of them.”
Travis Kalanick Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 13:31 FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup
Mar 13, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Competing With Atoms Requires Buying $100M of Real Estate Per City
“So like, if you want to compete with us, go buy a hundred million dollars of real estate in every major city in the world. And then we're going to go head to head.”
Travis Kalanick Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 14:47 FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup
Mar 13, 2026
Disclosure
Atoms Is Expanding Beyond Food Into Industrial Mining and Transport
“We're still doing the food thing, but then we're adding mining and transport.”
Travis Kalanick Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 17:00 FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup
Mar 13, 2026 positive
Insight
Grocery-Priced Meal Delivery Requires Automated Food Production and Delivery
“A meal that's efficient, you know, so efficient it starts to approach the cost of going to the grocery store. A meal that's prepared and delivered to you. That's real. You must do automated production of food. You must do automated delivery of the meal.”
Travis Kalanick Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 16:38 FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup
Mar 13, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Atoms Is Finalizing an Acquisition of Autonomous Vehicle Startup Pronto
“I was the largest investor in pronto. And then we just were basically right in the final, like, We're checking off the list, maybe closing today or tomorrow on that deal.”
Travis Kalanick Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 38:01 FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup
Jul 22, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Travis Kalanick Announces $1.7 Billion Raise for Adams
“I announced earlier today we did a 1.7 billion dollar raise.”
Travis Kalanick Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 4:18 Inside Travis Kalanick’s Wild New AI Company
Jul 22, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Kalanick Consolidated Mining, Transport, and Food AI Ventures into One Holding
“So then what we did is we put the companies together and then sold the equity in a singular entity.”
Travis Kalanick Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 6:14 Inside Travis Kalanick’s Wild New AI Company
Jul 22, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Kalanick: Adams Automates 2-Million-Pound Machines Rather Than Building Apps
“This is why the Adams thing is cool. Because you're not dropping a fucking app in the app store. You're like, automating a two million pound machine going 35 miles an hour carrying gold.”
Travis Kalanick Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 23:24 Inside Travis Kalanick’s Wild New AI Company
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