i think it still people don't understand how absurdly hard problem this is. Like, i'm not sure there's really been anything else where there's been the moon shot metaphor. We got caught out by our ability to iterate - we lost the thread. The frontier of robotics was if you had a robot that could deal with an object in the environment that was moving,. That was the absolute frontier. It's like weltinu peno. Everyone can do static objects and aok, they're pretty slow, but they can do them. But can you do something that's moving? And thatwas, that was the state in the ard an that's not that long ago
Sam Anthony made his first appearance on The Autonocast in 2018, when we discussed his pedestrian intent/prediction startup Perceptive Automata in episode #98. He returns to the show for his first interview since the collapse of that company to reflect on his experience as a founder in the space, his concerns about the sector more broadly, and much more.