Robert Playter
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1,075 appearances
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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Maybe that'll open the social robot door
That's probably not a path we're gonna go down, because again, we're so focused on performance and utility, we can add those other things also, but we really wanna start from that foundation of utility, I think.
Oh, I do think that...
being able to verbally converse, or even converse through gestures.
Part of these learning models is that you can now look at video and imagery and associate intent with that.
Those will all help in the communication between robots and people, for sure.
And that's gonna happen, obviously, more quickly than any of us were expecting.
It'll be interesting to see, you know, when...
when a generative AI can give you that warm feeling that you connected, you know, and that, oh yeah, you remember me, you're my friend, you know, we have a history.
You know, that history matters, right?
Memory of, yeah.
And I think we're in a unique position in that because of our investors, primarily Hyundai, but also SoftBank still owns 20% of us.
They're not totally fixated on...
driving us to profitability as soon as possible.
That's not the goal.
The goal really is a longer-term vision of creating, you know, what does mobility mean in the future?
How is this mobile robot technology going to influence us?
And can we shape that?
And they want both.
And so we, as a company, are trying to strike that balance between let's build a business that makes money.
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