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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

Of this year.

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

Of this year.

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

So our first deliveries of Stretch to customers were DHL and Maersk in January.

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

We're delivering to Gap right now.

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

And we have about seven or eight other customers, all who've already agreed in advance to buy between 10 and 20 robots.

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

And so we've already got commitments for a couple hundred of these robots.

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

This one's gonna go, right?

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

It's so obvious that there's a need.

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

And we're not just going to unload trucks.

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

We're going to do any box moving task in the warehouse.

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

And so it too will be a multi-purpose robot.

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

And we'll eventually have it doing palletizing or depalletizing or loading trucks or unloading trucks.

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

There's definitely thousands of robots.

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

There's probably tens of thousands of robots of this in the future.

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

So it's going to be profitable.

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

It looks like a big, strong robot arm on a mobile base.

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

The base is about the size of a pallet.

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

And we wanted it to be the size of a pallet because that's what lives in warehouses, right?

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

Pallets of goods sitting everywhere.

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

So it needed to be able to fit in that space.