Sergey Levine

That is a great question for my co-founder, Adnan Esmail, who is probably like the best person arguably in the world to ask that question of.

But certainly the drop in costs that I've seen has surprised me year after year.

So I don't know the answer to that question, but it's also a tricky question to answer because not all arms are made equal.

Like arguably the kind of robots that are like assembling cars in a factory are

are just not the right kind to think about.

Very few, because they are not currently commercially deployed, unlike the factory robots.

Well, you know, economies are very good at filling demand when there's a lot of demand, right?

Like how many iPhones were in the world in 2001, right?

That's right.

So I think there's definitely a challenge there.

And I think it's something –

that is worth thinking about.

And a particularly important question for researchers like myself is how can AI affect how we think about hardware?

Because there are some things that I think are going to be really, really important.

Like you probably want your thing to like not break all the time.

There's some things that are firmly in that category of like question marks.

Like how many fingers do we need?

Like you said yourself before that you were kind of surprised that a robot with two fingers can do a lot.

Okay, maybe you still want like more than that, but still like finding the bare minimum that still lets you have

good functionality that's important that's in the question mark box and there's some things that i think like we probably don't need like we probably don't need the robot to be like super duper precise because we know that feedback can compensate for that so i think my my job as i see it right now is to figure out what's sort of the minimal package we can get away with and i really like to think about robots in terms of minimal package because i don't think that we will have like the one ultimate robot like sort of the mechanical person basically