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Brett Adcock

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2822 total appearances

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

We have robots that are greeters and visitor bots that walk around the office all day, 24-7.

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

So you're over the office, you're getting lunch, or you're walking around, you're interviewing with us, you see robots everywhere.

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

And those run in 24-7 shifts, all day, all night, weekends, Christmas Day, whatever we run them.

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

Yeah, they'll come talk to you.

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

And, like, you can go talk to it and ask it for things.

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

We really wanted to go, like, you know, the end state for us is, like, it's going to replace, like, somebody, like, meeting the candidates that are interviewing there, taking them to the conference room, getting them water or coffee, like, all of that end to end.

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

and whole experience.

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

Holy shit.

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

Yeah.

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

Right now, they're walking.

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

I mean, right now, they're walking in the office.

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

Like, at nighttime, they're walking the office everywhere.

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

And it's a good stress test for us because these are neural nets that are running for navigation or planning or manipulation or whatever it would look like.

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

And it's hard.

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

And this is a new thing.

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

It's not like these things have been around for decades and we, like, understand that they're really mature.

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

They're not.

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

So we really stress test them like crazy by running them all the time.

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

We've been really working on deep memory, because I think one thing I really don't like is these conversational AIs you talk to that don't know anything about you.

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

It's not much to talk about.