Robert Playter

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics · 28 Apr 2023 podcast

And for the people who used to do that job unloading trucks, they're actually operating the robot now.

And so by building robots that are easy to control and it doesn't take an advanced degree to manage, you can become a robot operator.

And so as we've introduced these robots to both DHL and Maersk and Gap, the warehouse workers who were doing that manual labor are now the robot operators.

And so we see this as ultimately a benefit to them as well.

Not yet, but I will say that when we engage with our customers, they'll be able to see a return on investment in typically two years.

Well, I think we know the target.

We know what we're going after.

And with Spot, it took us a while to figure out what we were going after.

We definitely think about it, and we would like to get there.

We think the pathway to getting there is likely through these industrial applications and then mass manufacturing.

Let's figure out how to build the robots, how to make the software so that they can really do a broad set of skills.

That's going to take real investment to get there.

Performance first, right?

The principle of the company has always been really make the robots do useful stuff.

And so, you know, the...

the social robot companies that tried to start someplace else by just making a cute interaction, mostly they haven't survived.

And so we think the utility really needs to come first.

And that means you have to solve some of these hard problems.

And so to get there,

We're gonna go through the design and software development in industrial, and then that's eventually gonna let you reach a scale that could then be addressed to a consumer level market.

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