John Rush

And there's been a number of these humanoid robotics companies. There's a bit of a boom now. I think everyone's expecting that a lot of the work that was done in large language models and ChatGPT to kind of flow downward towards humanoid robots, where you could just talk to a humanoid robot and tell it to go do your laundry and it'll just do it. Now, at this moment,

And there's been a number of these humanoid robotics companies. There's a bit of a boom now. I think everyone's expecting that a lot of the work that was done in large language models and ChatGPT to kind of flow downward towards humanoid robots, where you could just talk to a humanoid robot and tell it to go do your laundry and it'll just do it. Now, at this moment,

No one's really broken through with a fully autonomous robot. A lot of them are tele-operated, meaning that there's literally a human in a suit kind of like doing the same action remotely and then the robot's just mirroring them. But that works for plenty of things.

No one's really broken through with a fully autonomous robot. A lot of them are tele-operated, meaning that there's literally a human in a suit kind of like doing the same action remotely and then the robot's just mirroring them. But that works for plenty of things.

No one's really broken through with a fully autonomous robot. A lot of them are tele-operated, meaning that there's literally a human in a suit kind of like doing the same action remotely and then the robot's just mirroring them. But that works for plenty of things.

I mean, this has been used for a long time, tele-operation in medicine and then also in like, you know, if there's a nuclear reactor, you don't want to go in there, but it's fine to have a remote tech, you know, walk in and, you know, act as the robot or whatever. SWAT teams and bomb defusal. This is the classic tele-operation robot.

I mean, this has been used for a long time, tele-operation in medicine and then also in like, you know, if there's a nuclear reactor, you don't want to go in there, but it's fine to have a remote tech, you know, walk in and, you know, act as the robot or whatever. SWAT teams and bomb defusal. This is the classic tele-operation robot.

I mean, this has been used for a long time, tele-operation in medicine and then also in like, you know, if there's a nuclear reactor, you don't want to go in there, but it's fine to have a remote tech, you know, walk in and, you know, act as the robot or whatever. SWAT teams and bomb defusal. This is the classic tele-operation robot.

um but there's separately from the ai and humanoid robotics trend there's also been a huge trend in defense technology uh driven mostly by anderle and palantir before that but there's just this trend that like defense tech is cool the government and the military is cool again uh the end of history isn't happening and there's you know, potentially great power competition is back on the menu.

um but there's separately from the ai and humanoid robotics trend there's also been a huge trend in defense technology uh driven mostly by anderle and palantir before that but there's just this trend that like defense tech is cool the government and the military is cool again uh the end of history isn't happening and there's you know, potentially great power competition is back on the menu.

um but there's separately from the ai and humanoid robotics trend there's also been a huge trend in defense technology uh driven mostly by anderle and palantir before that but there's just this trend that like defense tech is cool the government and the military is cool again uh the end of history isn't happening and there's you know, potentially great power competition is back on the menu.

I mean, we see this with Ukraine and Russia, and there are very serious conflicts happening. And so people are coming to the conclusion that, yes, we do need, you know, a serious revamp and efficiency gains within our military.

I mean, we see this with Ukraine and Russia, and there are very serious conflicts happening. And so people are coming to the conclusion that, yes, we do need, you know, a serious revamp and efficiency gains within our military.

I mean, we see this with Ukraine and Russia, and there are very serious conflicts happening. And so people are coming to the conclusion that, yes, we do need, you know, a serious revamp and efficiency gains within our military.

so there's been a lot of companies that have started with uh you know drones uh famously uh y combinator just had their first defense tech company it's a cruise missile company uh which is kind of crazy when you think about what yc has done historically been a lot of consumer apps you know airbnb a lot of b2b sas uh you know gusto and rippling and stripe came through here um but then now they're doing cruise missiles and a lot of people think that's funny and interesting i i think it's great i think they should be doing anything that's valuable um but

so there's been a lot of companies that have started with uh you know drones uh famously uh y combinator just had their first defense tech company it's a cruise missile company uh which is kind of crazy when you think about what yc has done historically been a lot of consumer apps you know airbnb a lot of b2b sas uh you know gusto and rippling and stripe came through here um but then now they're doing cruise missiles and a lot of people think that's funny and interesting i i think it's great i think they should be doing anything that's valuable um but

so there's been a lot of companies that have started with uh you know drones uh famously uh y combinator just had their first defense tech company it's a cruise missile company uh which is kind of crazy when you think about what yc has done historically been a lot of consumer apps you know airbnb a lot of b2b sas uh you know gusto and rippling and stripe came through here um but then now they're doing cruise missiles and a lot of people think that's funny and interesting i i think it's great i think they should be doing anything that's valuable um but

My point was that I was predicting that within the next six months, I think that there will be a startup that will take one of these humanoid robots, even if it's teleoperated, give it an AR-15, like a machine gun or a rifle, and just do a demo of what this would look like for just basically the Terminator. Basically a Terminator scenario. Yeah. And go massively viral, be extremely controversial.

My point was that I was predicting that within the next six months, I think that there will be a startup that will take one of these humanoid robots, even if it's teleoperated, give it an AR-15, like a machine gun or a rifle, and just do a demo of what this would look like for just basically the Terminator. Basically a Terminator scenario. Yeah. And go massively viral, be extremely controversial.

My point was that I was predicting that within the next six months, I think that there will be a startup that will take one of these humanoid robots, even if it's teleoperated, give it an AR-15, like a machine gun or a rifle, and just do a demo of what this would look like for just basically the Terminator. Basically a Terminator scenario. Yeah. And go massively viral, be extremely controversial.