Peter Ludwig

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The a16z Show · Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | Applied Intuition · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

So we have to do a lot of work ourselves actually going going out and collecting that data.

And the other key factor is safety, right?

If you're talking about building a smartphone app you don't necessarily care about is a safety critical application that

when you're talking about moving a machine that weighs many tons uh or think of a humanoid which could fall over on your children uh you care a lot about safety and and the evaluation of that safety and and that is really sort of getting to the state of the art of physical ai and really proving out uh the safety case around some of these city bear models yeah and i think like you know you talk about like humanoid data collection has been its own you know uh little uh area of interest

Oh, yeah.

So it's like, well, what are the bottlenecks, right?

And the bottlenecks, there's plenty of them.

But whenever you're dealing with physical systems, inevitably, you hit a lot of gnarly hardware problems.

And it could be anything from overheating to a sensor being slightly miscalibrated or a funny issue you saw yesterday was basically a fogging sensor, like fog impacting a sensor.

But these are the things that you actually have to solve for this stuff to work very reliably in the real world.

I think General Motors also had the topic of business model, right?

So you have, Cruise was going after the robo-taxi concept, but GM makes its profits from personal car ownership.

And those things can be a bit odd.

So I think that was also a bit of the equation.

Broadly, when we talk about machines and machines becoming intelligent, fundamentally, a machine is a collection of these different components that are integrated.

And whoever does that final integration is oftentimes the company that puts their badge on it, the brand name.

But many, many companies are building technology that goes into that machine.

And so we now have a bunch of technology components and platforms that can go into these machines.

But we also sell the core technology that can be used to develop them as well.

Would have gone right off.

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