Brett Adcock

“The holy grail for robotics is can you basically build a general purpose machine that can do what humans can, which for me is like a humanoid robot. And a humanoid robot is just a robot that has like a human form. So it has legs so it can walk upstairs and walk over uneven terrain or say things on the ground and bend down, which are important, legs are important for our reach up. It has like arms and hands so we can manipulate objects and do things like grab a stuff, open these gummies, and fold laundry and do real work.”

“The biggest problems we're having is the coding parts get stuck. The robot either doesn't see something right on the part and misses the object detector, doesn't really understand what's going on. The controller, when it gets out of bounds of what it's ever seen before, you have carpet in here now and it's really squishy. The robot is doing fine, which is great, but I think our old controller would not do well. It's like you have really shaggy carpet here. And it's harder for a robot to walk around. And so we had a really difficult time seeing that, even though it did well every day, seeing that scale to lots of robots.”

“We have a camera in the hand that can detect when the fingertips are in contact with some surface. It could be something we're touching. Then within there, every joint can also feel sense and track the position of every part of the hand. The hand is really good. Honestly, we're working on hand stuff for close to four years. It's probably one of the hardest engineering problems we have on the hardware side. It's probably as hard, and we have our next-generation hand that we kind of teased a couple weeks ago that has basically full... I think it's a full human level dexterity with this hand.”

“The good news about the air is it's three-dimensional. You can stack, like, basically an infinite amount of, like, say, roads in the air. Different altitudes. Yes, at different altitudes, and even laterally. So, like... So, you can basically build, like, little tunnels in the sky, and you can basically stack them, and you basically can put, like, orders of magnitude, more things in the air than you can in the road. It's the same for below ground, with tunnels. So, the future of travel in cities is below ground, in tunnels, and above ground in the sky.”

“The majority of all the cases, like 90 something percent is all happening from unplanned. Folks are bringing in guns all the time and then they're shooting it. What you can do is you can stop all those. The planned ones are very difficult and maybe impossible to stop. But the 90 some percent of all other shootings, I think you can avoid those, meaning you can prevent them by knowing if somebody has a gun on them. You can do it the old-fashioned way, which is like metal detectors and all this other stuff. We don't want the kids to go into school like that.”

“We're interacting with these AI systems to like old pre-AI computers. Like you're pre-ing up your phone or your Mac or your computer. It's like they're all designed like 20 years ago. They're like the, it's like a really old interface. The chat bot's an old interface. It's the wrong interface, the AGI. You're not going to get to Jarvis with those. So we have to go rebuild all the hardware from scratch. Yeah. And I don't see anybody, I've been waiting, I've been sitting here for like a year and a half. I've been like, somebody's going to do this really well and I can't wait for it. And nobody's doing it.”

“You got a robot in a box, you open it up, robot get out, it'll start talking to you. It'll ask you to show you the house. It'll say, can you walk me through your home? It'll follow you around and you'll tell it all that. Like you would, let's say you had a friend staying for two weeks at your house that needed to cook and use your stuff. Like you wanted to wash clothes and stay in one of your rooms. You'd walk that person around and you'd be like, hey man, this is recycling here, this is where trash is at. Like here's where you get water. The trash goes out every Monday.”

“So I think the commercial workforce, you can charge like 10 times more. So like, so it's just like the commercial and in the commercial market for humanoids like, you know, I mean, half of GDP is human labor. You know, maybe a little under half. So it's like three billion humans in the workforce is like contributes to like 40 something percent of GDP. So like you talk about the largest market in the world is sitting in the commercial workforce.”