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Robert Playter

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

And we want that to be a very reliable process, because that's what somebody who's running a brewery, a factory,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

That's what they need the robot to do.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

And so we have to dog food our own robot.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

We have to test it in that way.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

And that's something that almost, I don't think anybody else in the world can do.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

Because A, you have to have a fleet of robots to just accrue that much information.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

You have to be willing to dedicate it to that test.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

And so that's, but that's essential.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

That's how you get it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

And we're still learning a lot there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

We're learning how to cast parts instead of mill it all out of billet aluminum.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

We're learning how to get plastic molded parts.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

And we're learning about how to control that process so that you can build the same robot twice in a row.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

There's a lot to learn there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

And we're only partway through that process.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

We've set up a manufacturing facility in Waltham.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

It's about a mile from our headquarters.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

And we're doing final assembly and tests of both spots and stretches at that factory.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#374 โ€“ Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

And it's hard because, to be honest, we're still iterating on the design of the robot.