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Brett Adcock

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

The controller,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

when it gets out of bounds of like what it's ever seen before.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

Like you have carpet in here now and it's like really squishy.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

The robot's doing fine, which is great.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

But I think our old controller would not do well.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

It's like, you have like really shaggy carpet here.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

And it's like, yeah.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

And so like, and it's like not very, it's like, you know, it's harder for a robot to walk around.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

And so that was like, we had a really difficult time seeing that, even though it did well every day, seeing that scale to like lots of robots.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

So we went back to the office, this is about a year and a half ago, and said, we need to basically refactor everything into a neural network.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

And one of the big, and I think we just announced Helix two or three months ago now, I forget, like end of last year.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

And it's basically entirely down the stack, including the controllers and neural net now.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

There's like no code left really on the robot.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

Maybe some code in certain pieces, but mostly just almost all of the thing is like a neural net at this point.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

We removed the need for like almost over 100,000 lines of code when we launched Helix 2.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

And so what you saw today was just like a robot that we can put now back into say the factory and these places that will run only on a neural net.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

And I think we're running these robots right now, we're getting ready for deployment to customers and they're running incredibly well.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

We have robots running like basically now in 24 seven shifts without stopping, without any faults for like days and days.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

We just went like over, we just had like record time

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

this past week on the robot running until we saw, like, a false, like, almost, yeah, basically a whole week.