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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

You want to think about the software layer.

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

Like you want to think about the, so for us, like what's so powerful about a humanoid is you,

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

you don't want to go out and change hardware.

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

Whenever we have a new app on your phone, you just download it and it can do new things now.

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

It's got my bank account now, I can do bank account stuff.

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

Or you got a calculator, it can do calculator stuff.

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

You really want to treat the hardware like this, where you basically, similar to a phone, where you don't have to change the hardware for new capabilities.

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

You want it to learn how to do complex towel folding, or unloading the dishwasher, making coffee on a Keurig, walking the dog.

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

These are almost like the Matrix, where you get plugged into a system that reuploads neural net weights into the robot, where it can learn new things.

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

So that's what we do now.

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

Like if the robot, like if we can't do package logistics well, we get data for package logistics.

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

We train our Helix Neural Net for a week and then we load it to the robot and it can like, then the same robot that was like folding towels like the week before can now just sit there for 24 seven and do logistics work and package work.

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

Wow.

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

Nothing changes.

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

Where's this going to go first?

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

Consumers, businesses?

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

You'll ship into businesses first.

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

It's...

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

The engineering complexity that we have to ship is like proportional to the variability that we see on site.

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

So the variability at homes is like extremely high.