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Davide Asnaghi

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121 total appearances

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The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And does it take a new breakthrough to get there?

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Maybe switching gears to talk a little bit more.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

I mean, I think...

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

physical world automation, physical AI, whether it's robots running around or something else, feels very, like, from a sort of society-level perspective.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

I think, you know, people are scared of it.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

People are thinking about it.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

It's very much in the zeitgeist.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

I think it's a truly exciting boon to, you know, American industrial growth, but there would probably be people that take the other side of that argument.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

I guess, like, so switching gears to that then, like...

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Maybe let's start with humanoids.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

That's a big contentious topic.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

You know, Davide, in the context of manufacturing on your end and for you in the context of like actually running around on a construction site and moving material, you know, overhyped, underhyped, does it matter?

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

I'm curious to get your hot takes on humanoids.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And humanoids in particular versus like specific fit for purpose robots that are like, oh, I'm really good at moving lumber or I'm like a concrete pourer robot.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

What do you think, Davide?

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Are you going to have humanoids on your PCB manufacturing line?

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

You kind of touched on something that I think is important, which is this sort of tacit knowledge that I think Dan Wang calls it the process knowledge, which China has in spades, which, you know, the U.S.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

has to some degree.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

But it's we have an aging workforce and some of these kind of skilled labor, whether it's manufacturing engineers or highly skilled, you know, construction engineers or civil engineers or electrical engineers.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

These people that, you know, work in these physical fields and have developed an intuition and a taste and understanding of what works and what doesn't.