The Evolution of Electromechanical Muscle Technology

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The human body is just so spectacular. We've looked at a lot of different technologies, including hydraulics and other applications outside of rotary or linear electromechanical actuators. And we really have a hard time hitting any of our requirements for maybe packaging or mass. There are some areas that we're spending a decent amount of time on on more of the academic research side that we think are really interesting. But they're just a little bit far enough out where they're not applicable to be able to put on to a human way to do useful work in the next few years.

In this episode, Peter and Brett discuss the future of humanoid robots, predicting that there could be up to 10 billion humanoids on Earth in the coming decades. Adcock shares his vision for creating autonomous general-purpose humanoids that can be inserted into the economy to perform physical labor, making it a choice rather than a necessity.

07:32 | Humanoid Robots: Near Future
19:10 | A New Humanoid Robot Age
58:09 | Unlocking Humanoid Robot Potential

Brett Adcock is an American technology entrepreneur and the founder of Figure, an AI robotics company building a general-purpose humanoid robot. Previously, Brett founded Archer Aviation, an urban air mobility company that IPO’d at $2.7B. He also founded Vettery, a machine learning-based talent marketplace that was acquired for $110M.

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