The Hard Truth About Hardware in the Robotics Space

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I think a lot of robotics startups think that hardware is just like easily to procure and it's really a software issue. I would say definitely did not understand the maturity of the supply chain there. We're probably a little bit bigger overall software if we include controls, middleware, and autonomy then we are hardware. Our hardware team is beef 15 or so. Software will definitely be the biggest part of the company long term. In the limit, we think of figures in AI business. So we'll have a large autonomy team. And there's a very significant AI I did in Shen that we need to build here long term.

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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