Jonathan Hurst

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · The $1/Hour Worker: Four Robotics CEOs on Humanoids at Home, China's Threat, and the End of Dangerous Jobs · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

Robots take so much more data and so many more examples than a person.

We're still figuring out how to teach robots how to learn.

But then one of the benefits that robots have in the long run is they've got Wi-Fi.

When you learn how to play the violin, you can't just load that to somebody else and then they learn how to play the violin, know how to play the violin based on your learnings.

Or all robots of that type know how to play the violin, right?

Yes.

And then minor variations for the next type and the next piece of hardware.

So today it's doing these sort of multi-purpose workflows that are still reasonably well scoped, like picking up bins and totes and carrying them around.

And the reason we do that is because you need two arms to pick up big things.

You need this whole body control to be dexterous in how you're manipulating and moving those.

You need to be balancing to lift them to the top of a tall shelf and narrow space.

So it kind of justifies the form factor for this one use case.

But the real useful aspect of a humanoid is its versatility.

So when we do the each picking and, you know, fill a bin and carry it somewhere and palletizing and depalletizing and are expanding out into more and more use cases, it's when it really starts to escalate.

And Digit V5, which is coming out later this year, is the first time that a humanoid robot, a robot which is balancing, can step out of a work cell and does not need a physical barrier between the robot and the person to maintain safety in this warehouse.

So when Digit V5 is out there, that's kind of a scaling moment for us.

Well, it's been a very, very intentional process over the past two or three years.

Right.

where this is our experience with Amazon.

When we deployed and the robots are doing the task and they're like, great, it solves all the R&D goals we had.

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