Robert Playter
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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We have engineers who want to solve problems.
And the quality and cost and manufacturability is just another kind of problem.
And because they're so invested in what we're doing, they're interested in and will go work on those problems as well.
And so I think we're managing that transition very well.
In fact, I'm really pleased that... I mean, it's a huge undertaking, by the way, right?
So even having...
To get reliability to where it needs to be, we have to have fleets of robots that we're just operating 24 seven in our offices to go find those rare failures and eliminate them.
It's just a totally different kind of activity than the research activity where you get it to work, you know, the one robot you have to work in a repeatable way, you know, at the high stakes demo.
It's just very different.
But I think we're making remarkable progress, I guess.
I'm going to stop way short of the sentience.
It is the case that if you come to our office today and walk around the hallways, you're going to see a dozen robots just kind of walking around all the time.
And that's really a reliability test for us.
So we have these robots programmed to do autonomous missions, get up off their charging dock, walk around the building, collect data at a few different places, and go sit back down.
And we want that to be a very reliable process, because that's what somebody who's running a brewery, a factory,
That's what they need the robot to do.
And so we have to dog food our own robot.
We have to test it in that way.
And so on a weekly basis, we have robots that are accruing something like 1,500 or maybe 2,000 kilometers of walking and over 1,000 hours of operation every week.
And that's something that almost, I don't think anybody else in the world can do.
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