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Brett Adcock

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

There is a path to go build a business doing that.

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

But the biggest business in the world is if you solve general purpose robotics, where just through speech and talking to the robot, it'd feel like you had a human in a body suit.

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

that can understand you, nod, go off and do things now after your task.

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

That's the problem we want to solve at Figure.

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

That's a large scale, it's like an AI lab problem at this point.

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

We talk a lot about how we're trying to give AI a body here at Figure.

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

And so we have this embodiment.

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

We need to put really sophisticated AI into it to be able to command it.

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

And that's the biggest problem we're trying to solve.

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

If you're with me in the office every day, I am working that down with no sleep basically as hard as I possibly can.

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

And it's a very, very difficult problem.

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

At this point, it's largely constrained by getting the appropriate data into the network.

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

I think if we could snap our fingers and get a pile of data that we really needed into Helix stack, I think we would solve general robotics right now.

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

I mean, there's a lot of stuff going on with China and manufacturing and a few other things, but I think...

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

You know, I think maybe to summarize, I think where we're at is, I think if I had to like, if I was like watching this and I wasn't following the story, I think the one thing I would like to convey that, you know, is like, we are so close to like making this happen now.

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

And it's only until, you know, people can come online and like watch our stuff we put out, you know,

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

but when people come to the office and experience it and see the robots and you can talk to them and some of the stuff you're doing here today, it's just like a full like emotional experience that is like really hard to convey.

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

It just feels like we're living here.

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

Yeah, just like, well, it's like, it's crazy it works, it's crazy it's working, but we're like, we're now in the, we now have like line of sight to make this happen.

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

And which is exciting in my perspective, super exciting.