James Vincent

I mean, this is your life's work.

Yeah, yeah.

So there's two schools of thought.

There's a sort of scientific approach, which is like, how do we understand this in the same sense as why do we understand the distant nebula?

Yeah.

It's a scientific question.

But then there's the engineering question, which I'm more of an engineer.

And it's like, let's get something to work.

Like we want these things to help us do work that we don't want to do.

And in particular, things that are drudgery, for example, delivering packages faster so that we can get the stuff we want from our favorite vendor as soon as possible.

So there's a shortage of workers.

And this is another misconception.

People are afraid that robots are going to put all the humans out of work.

I don't believe that.

I actually think there's a shortage of humans, especially humans who are willing to do a lot of the drudgery work in warehouses and factories and farms and cleaning hotel rooms, et cetera.

And so robots can be very helpful there.

And to do almost any of those jobs, the first thing they want is a robot to be able to grasp things.

And so that's a very fundamental task.

I mean, devil's advocate, though,

I think a lot of people like their jobs at Costco stocking shelves that pay well and afford people health care.