Nick Durham

342 skilled construction workers retire every day in the US. Use interior wall finishing as an example, you can't just hand someone a trowel and get a Level 5 wall finish. It takes years to develop that skill. This is Okibo's fully autonomous interior finishing robot that does drywall mudding, joint taping, sanding (Level 4 and 5 finishes), and spray and roller painting (the video is a sanding pass). It can reach up to 24' so it's designed for high reach in large industrial spaces (data centers, commercial, offsite manufacturing). You just swap the toolhead for a different finish application. It's an autonomous operation, vision scans the path and starts, there’s one operator overseeing the work and changing tool heads when needed. Today, it can produce 6,000 sqft/day (up to 8-10x more productive depending on the space).