Jonathan Hurst

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206 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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So there's a lot of manufacturing.

And again, your robot operations and deployments, there's a lot.

Is clanker a derogatory term?

I don't know.

It's a Disney, you know, trademark term.

Oh, is it really?

So I would say that, you know, as we think about the first principles of how to make the simplest possible robot to do the task, right?

One arm is not quite enough to pick up big things.

You can only pick up small things.

Two arms now you can pick up big things.

Adding a third arm, it's hard to see the...

enough utility to make it worth fitting it in.

And then, you know, go to four to five.

There's a lot to coordinate and a lot of extra complexity, but what else does it make you do?

I don't know.

Maybe we'll see that, but it's going to have to be driven by a real need.

All right.

Favorite robot in science fiction history?

Probably Wall-E.

Wall-E.

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