Liron Shapira

You said recently tens of billions of robots, but that's decades away.

At least one decade away.

It's gotta be more than that.

It's going to grow very fast.

Why do you think that?

I think humanoid robots will be the biggest product ever.

The demand will be insatiable.

Everyone's going to want one.

Basically, who wouldn't want their own personal C-3PO R2-D2?

If optimists can watch videos, YouTube videos or how-to videos or whatever, and based on that video, just like a human can, learn how to do that thing, then you really have task extensibility that is dramatic, because then it can learn anything very quickly.

Right now, we're training optimists to do primitive tasks where a human in what's called a mocap suit and cameras on the head

Moving in the way that the robot would move to, say, pick up an object or open a door or the basic tasks, throw a ball, dance.

Absolutely not.

We may be able to give people, if somebody's committed crime, a more humane form of containment of future crime.

Which is if you say, like, you now get a free optimist, and it's just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime.

But other than that, you get to do anything.

It's pretty wild to think of all the possibilities, but I think it's clearly the future.