Robert Playter

And again, I think the purpose was to kind of push the whole industry forward.

We provided the robot and some baseline software, but we didn't actually compete as a participant where we were trying to drive the robot through this maze.

We were just trying to support the other teams.

It was humbling because it was really a hard task.

And honestly, the robots, the tears were because mostly the robots didn't do it.

They fell down repeatedly.

It was hard to get through this contest.

Some did, and they were rewarded and won.

But it was humbling because of just how hard.

These tasks weren't all that hard.

A person could have done it very easily.

But it was really hard to get the robots to do it.

Yeah, the robot was a little bit big to get in and out of that car, right?

It doesn't fit, yeah.

This is the curse of a general purpose robot, that they're not perfect at any one thing, but they might be able to do a wide variety of things.

And that is the goal at the end of the day.

I think we all want to build general purpose robots that can be used for lots of different activities, but it's hard.

And the wisdom in building successful robots up until this point have been go build a robot for a specific task and it'll do it very well.

And as long as you control that environment, it'll operate perfectly.

But