Robert Playter
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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That's one of the challenges of this migration we're going through.
Yeah, things got more expensive and harder to get.
And yeah, so it's all been a challenge.
Oh yeah, much more.
And these are really just the first generation of these machines.
We're already thinking about what the next generation of Spot's gonna look like.
Spot was built as a platform.
So you could put almost any sensor on it.
We provided data communications, mechanical connections, power connections.
But for example, in the applications that we're excited about where you're monitoring these factories for their health,
there's probably a simpler machine that we could build that's really focused on that use case.
And that's the difference between the general purpose machine or the platform versus the purpose-built machine.
And so even though even in the factory, we'd still like the robot to do lots of different tasks, if we really knew on day one that we're gonna be operating in a factory with these three sensors in it, we would have it all integrated in a package that would be easier, less expensive, and more reliable.
So we're contemplating building a next generation of that machine.
We think...
The future of mobile robots is mobile manipulation.
That's where, in the past 10 years, it was getting mobility to work, getting the legged locomotion to work.
If you ask what's the hard problem in the next 10 years, it's getting a mobile robot to do useful manipulation for you.
And so we wanted Spot to have an arm to experiment with those problems.
And the arm is almost as complex as the robot itself, and it's an attachable payload.
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