Brett Adcock

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 like, you know, uneven terrain or say things on the ground and bend down, which legs are important for, or reach up.

It has like arms and hands so we can manipulate objects and do things like, you know, grab his stuff, open these gummies and...

you know, fold laundry and do real work.

And we have the right sensors so we can, like, see the world and understand what to go do and use, you know, our biological neural net to kind of figure out how to reason from.

And, you know, having worked on, like, you know, kind of, like, aircraft for, you know, now five or six years, I thought it was, like, pretty possible to go build an electric humanoid robot.

And electric's important for cost.

And it's important for safety and it's important because the performance will be much greater.

And at the time, I mean, one of the best humanoid robots then was probably like the Boston Dynamics Atlas.

It had like a hydraulic system.

It was like really heavy and big and high torque and very leaky, like the oils everywhere.

And also didn't run very, like maybe ran for 20 minutes on a single charge.

So you need to kind of radically transform the hardware.

And then you needed to figure out a way to build like an AI brain.

The humanoid is so complex.

It has like, let's call it like 40 degrees of freedom.

And degrees of freedom is like a joint.

So like an elbow is a degrees of freedom.

You know, shoulders got three.