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San Francisco/Silicon Valley AI | Robots, holodecks, BCIs, analysis of new things | Ex-Microsoft, Rackspace, Fast Company | Wrote eight books about the future.

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I met an Apple employee who was at the @tesla event and he told me that Apple killed its autonomous car after figuring out what Tesla was building.

I met an Apple employee who was at the @tesla event and he told me that Apple killed its autonomous car after figuring out what Tesla was building.

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Rumor from Dimensional’s open house. It makes an American OS for Chinese robots. Was told that Anthropic is buying Physical Intelligence but deal hasn’t closed yet. That was from an investor. San Francisco robot parties are fun. Hope you are having fun. Now the nerds are playing robot soccer.

Rumor from Dimensional’s open house. It makes an American OS for Chinese robots. Was told that Anthropic is buying Physical Intelligence but deal hasn’t closed yet. That was from an investor. San Francisco robot parties are fun. Hope you are having fun. Now the nerds are playing robot soccer.

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Steve Jobs killed the floppy. Elon Musk killed the steering wheel.

Steve Jobs killed the floppy. Elon Musk killed the steering wheel.

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I am about to go to bed. The markets won’t get what happened last night at @tesla. I couldn’t be more impressed. Elon Musk laid out a bunch for next decade. I have been to a lot of product launches and never have been to one like this.

I am about to go to bed. The markets won’t get what happened last night at @tesla. I couldn’t be more impressed. Elon Musk laid out a bunch for next decade. I have been to a lot of product launches and never have been to one like this.

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The question of the week. Will Grok 4.7 change the momentum of OpenAI? Question I pondered watching the surfers tonight in Santa Cruz. Surf is up! Some of the biggest waves I have ever seen at this spot.

The question of the week. Will Grok 4.7 change the momentum of OpenAI? Question I pondered watching the surfers tonight in Santa Cruz. Surf is up! Some of the biggest waves I have ever seen at this spot.

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CES=Chinese Electronics Show. Almost every booth we visited had a Chinese speaker. I gave a tour to the technology leaders from a big Chinese company. We visited Booster Robotics, pictured here. Among about a dozen others. Most are Chinese companies. Or seeing the Antigravity 360-degree drone. Which was the thing that made me drool the most. You put on a VR headset and it is like flying. You can look in all directions and the drone doesn’t need to turn anything. Try to get a chance to try it. Never experienced anything like it. $1,600.

CES=Chinese Electronics Show. Almost every booth we visited had a Chinese speaker. I gave a tour to the technology leaders from a big Chinese company. We visited Booster Robotics, pictured here. Among about a dozen others. Most are Chinese companies. Or seeing the Antigravity 360-degree drone. Which was the thing that made me drool the most. You put on a VR headset and it is like flying. You can look in all directions and the drone doesn’t need to turn anything. Try to get a chance to try it. Never experienced anything like it. $1,600.

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I am in the church of American consumerism. The fact that I'm telling you this probably tells you what store I'm in. It isn’t a Tesla store. Think bigger. Way bigger. That you have to show your club card to get in. Just like if I say, "What kind of shoes was Tiger Woods wearing?" you probably would get that right too. What other brands have such a strong memory in everybody's head? I remember my boss taking me to Price Club back in the 1980s. Which is what Costco used to be called. “Don’t tell anyone about this place. It will put us out of business.” The family store I used to work at is gone. If you talk to a Tesla fan all you need to say is “triangle” and we know exactly which vehicle you are talking about. At the Tesla Oasis, which is in the middle of nowhere in California north of Los Angeles, the solar panels are at the same angle. Why I notice these things? I have hung out with brand designers and storytellers at the highest level. Oakley treats its designers as better than everyone else. It has special equipment that deposits a layer a few atoms thick as glass and plastic. That is how it gets to reflect light in such a colorful way. If you see them you know they are Oakleys. Can’t wait for a pair to come out from some tech company that basically say to everyone “yes I am wearing a camera.” Whoever turns that negative into a club will have a huge moat. Like Harley Davidson turned its negative image into a brand that the Governor of Texas once talked to my partner about for more than an hour both with very fond tones. My friend says Cybertruck is a failure. I say that will be a very popular vehicle on Robotaxi. Just watch. Once you are inside for a ride you will understand. As for the glasses, Zuckerberg had plans long ago to have us play games with our friends in the street. That kind of club.

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New toy to play with.

New toy to play with.

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Every AI video creator has this nightmare: You generate a character with one prompt… but in the next shot, she’s a different person. Different face. Different skin. Different eyes. You can’t tell a story like that. BACH — the world’s first Industrial-Grade AI video engine — finally fixes it. Locked Character Consistency. Same woman. Multiple shots. Multiple angles. Zero morphing. Watch this 👇

Every AI video creator has this nightmare: You generate a character with one prompt… but in the next shot, she’s a different person. Different face. Different skin. Different eyes. You can’t tell a story like that. BACH — the world’s first Industrial-Grade AI video engine — finally fixes it. Locked Character Consistency. Same woman. Multiple shots. Multiple angles. Zero morphing. Watch this 👇

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Today hit a traffic light that was out. The AI in my Tesla handled it just fine. Showing why when the power is out it still works. Decentralized computing architecture for the win. It works even if the Internet is down. We just had a great dinner in Half Moon Bay, California. Heading home in a stormy night. Merry Christmas!

Today hit a traffic light that was out. The AI in my Tesla handled it just fine. Showing why when the power is out it still works. Decentralized computing architecture for the win. It works even if the Internet is down. We just had a great dinner in Half Moon Bay, California. Heading home in a stormy night. Merry Christmas!

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I have watched every platform shift since the PC. This one does not ship as software. It gets hired. Meet the AI employee that 40,000+ teams already hired. He does not wait for prompts. He owns the outcome.

I have watched every platform shift since the PC. This one does not ship as software. It gets hired. Meet the AI employee that 40,000+ teams already hired. He does not wait for prompts. He owns the outcome.

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These robots are the fastest. Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League is practicing today. Race on Saturday. Formula 1 speeds. All AI, no humans. I am getting first look at this third race, the AI is much better than last year. Am getting the details behind the simulators and AI involved. Video later in the week.

These robots are the fastest. Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League is practicing today. Race on Saturday. Formula 1 speeds. All AI, no humans. I am getting first look at this third race, the AI is much better than last year. Am getting the details behind the simulators and AI involved. Video later in the week.

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The Holodeck. ⚡️𝖘𝖚𝖙𝖚⚡️ is here showing me a prototype of something coming later this year. A virtual cube full of experiences created by artists. I couldn’t share much because this is coming later this year. But I want one sitting on my coffee table.

The Holodeck. ⚡️𝖘𝖚𝖙𝖚⚡️ is here showing me a prototype of something coming later this year. A virtual cube full of experiences created by artists. I couldn’t share much because this is coming later this year. But I want one sitting on my coffee table.

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What does all this mean for culture? If you are watching my AI Influencer list here on X you'll see a ton of people posting various videos generated by AI, like this one that Justine posted last week, done with Kling AI Tonight I had some fun. My wife shot a video of me crawling on the floor being a goofball. Kling turned me into an evil 1X robot in a few minutes. Ahh, the kids and I are gonna have some fun with this one! Done with kling 2.6 motion control.

What does all this mean for culture? If you are watching my AI Influencer list here on X you'll see a ton of people posting various videos generated by AI, like this one that Justine posted last week, done with Kling AI Tonight I had some fun. My wife shot a video of me crawling on the floor being a goofball. Kling turned me into an evil 1X robot in a few minutes. Ahh, the kids and I are gonna have some fun with this one! Done with kling 2.6 motion control.

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It's 2030 and you are reviewing humanoid robots. A Tesla. A Google. An Apple. An OpenAI. A Meta. A Figure. And a bunch of Chinese-made ones. Which one is best, and why? I think the Tesla understands the world much better. Why? There were eight Teslas around me on the freeway today. Start there. No other robot company has that data. But my robot is parked at the local high school twice a day. Its cameras see humans in all of our weirdness. How we move. Where we go. Where we walk. Who we talk with. What you are wearing. Whether your hair was combed this morning. That data will lead to robotics breakthroughs. Apple might keep up with its Vision Pro data, but it is too freaked out by the privacy implications of using said data. (On the front are six cameras and a couple of TOF -- Time Of Flight -- sensors that can see everything in your home in great detail). Google has a lot of data, for sure. All my: 1. Email. 2. Calendars. 3. Photos. 4. TV watching behavior. 5. Contacts. 6. Documents and spreadsheets. 7. Files. 8. Location data. So I expect Google's robot will be attractive to many. But how do you see the others shake out over the next five years? Make some guesses. But remember what an AI pioneer told me years ago about AI: it's all about the data. The Chinese ones have huge advantages: the Chinese have more data on their citizens, and many more citizens to boot AND they can make robots cheaper than we can. But now that you know OpenAI is building its own robot you have caught wind of what I've heard from many in San Francisco and Silicon Valley: that humanoid robots are the real prize of AI and will be highly profitable for those that can make them and find customers willing to buy them. Here, too, I learned long ago never to bet against Elon Musk. Will you?

It's 2030 and you are reviewing humanoid robots. A Tesla. A Google. An Apple. An OpenAI. A Meta. A Figure. And a bunch of Chinese-made ones. Which one is best, and why? I think the Tesla understands the world much better. Why? There were eight Teslas around me on the freeway today. Start there. No other robot company has that data. But my robot is parked at the local high school twice a day. Its cameras see humans in all of our weirdness. How we move. Where we go. Where we walk. Who we talk with. What you are wearing. Whether your hair was combed this morning. That data will lead to robotics breakthroughs. Apple might keep up with its Vision Pro data, but it is too freaked out by the privacy implications of using said data. (On the front are six cameras and a couple of TOF -- Time Of Flight -- sensors that can see everything in your home in great detail). Google has a lot of data, for sure. All my: 1. Email. 2. Calendars. 3. Photos. 4. TV watching behavior. 5. Contacts. 6. Documents and spreadsheets. 7. Files. 8. Location data. So I expect Google's robot will be attractive to many. But how do you see the others shake out over the next five years? Make some guesses. But remember what an AI pioneer told me years ago about AI: it's all about the data. The Chinese ones have huge advantages: the Chinese have more data on their citizens, and many more citizens to boot AND they can make robots cheaper than we can. But now that you know OpenAI is building its own robot you have caught wind of what I've heard from many in San Francisco and Silicon Valley: that humanoid robots are the real prize of AI and will be highly profitable for those that can make them and find customers willing to buy them. Here, too, I learned long ago never to bet against Elon Musk. Will you?

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With two teenagers I never realized how used to dirty floors I had gotten. Now my robot cleans up every night. We love our Matic Robots. The most advanced computer vision in a vacuum. And, yes, I have a list of everyone in computer vision (look at my profile and find “view lists” to find that).

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Does the world need a humanoid robot expo/event? Question Irena Cronin and I are pondering this weekend. What you think?

Does the world need a humanoid robot expo/event? Question Irena Cronin and I are pondering this weekend. What you think?

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Our robot has driven me and the family for two hours in driving rain across one of USA’s most dangerous roads. Without my hands touching the wheel once. It is how it handled pudddles, two brown streams crossing the road that most impresses me. While coming at us fast. None of you will do better. It was perfect. Which leads to trust. Once you trust a company with your life you will buy anything that company offers. People have no idea how good the AI is from Tesla. Trust will sell a lot of robots. Better. It gets me to trust all AI.

Our robot has driven me and the family for two hours in driving rain across one of USA’s most dangerous roads. Without my hands touching the wheel once. It is how it handled pudddles, two brown streams crossing the road that most impresses me. While coming at us fast. None of you will do better. It was perfect. Which leads to trust. Once you trust a company with your life you will buy anything that company offers. People have no idea how good the AI is from Tesla. Trust will sell a lot of robots. Better. It gets me to trust all AI.

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Met a founding engineer today from Replit ⠕. Jen Li. We were both judging the Pokee AI hackathon. They have me some credits and I built two apps in 20 minutes using the X API:a weather one which mapped storms being reported in by my climate scientist list and another monitoring my three news lists for information about the Iran war. Pokee includes X API for its customers automatically. While doing that my other AI read all your posts: He tells me about why Replit is hugely important in the AI industry. In other words how you can use it in your life and business.

Met a founding engineer today from Replit ⠕. Jen Li. We were both judging the Pokee AI hackathon. They have me some credits and I built two apps in 20 minutes using the X API:a weather one which mapped storms being reported in by my climate scientist list and another monitoring my three news lists for information about the Iran war. Pokee includes X API for its customers automatically. While doing that my other AI read all your posts: He tells me about why Replit is hugely important in the AI industry. In other words how you can use it in your life and business.

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Grok made our vacation/road trip better. It found us fun things to visit. And good things to eat. And answered some science questions to settle family arguments. Our first road trip with an LLM as part of the car.

Grok made our vacation/road trip better. It found us fun things to visit. And good things to eat. And answered some science questions to settle family arguments. Our first road trip with an LLM as part of the car.

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First "Unaligned" show with Aimi founder, Edward Balassanian. One of 30 companies in the AI Generative Music space. Gotta start with AI music!

First "Unaligned" show with Aimi founder, Edward Balassanian. One of 30 companies in the AI Generative Music space. Gotta start with AI music!

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Which social network is better for learning? (You already know the answer).

Which social network is better for learning? (You already know the answer).

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A Tesla Robotaxi drove me home tonight. I left my car at UP. I hit a pothole very hard and it broke something. Yikes. I was even looking at the road during this and didn’t see it in time. Waymo doesn’t yet come to either place. An empty freeway let me see the software that run the matrix headlights in the new Model Y light up the signs in a much better way than in our Model Y. It cleans the camera in a far different way too. No takeovers in 12 rides. I do my homework before I mouth off on ’d subscriber-only show on Sundays. The more experience I get in it the more bullish I get.

A Tesla Robotaxi drove me home tonight. I left my car at UP. I hit a pothole very hard and it broke something. Yikes. I was even looking at the road during this and didn’t see it in time. Waymo doesn’t yet come to either place. An empty freeway let me see the software that run the matrix headlights in the new Model Y light up the signs in a much better way than in our Model Y. It cleans the camera in a far different way too. No takeovers in 12 rides. I do my homework before I mouth off on ’d subscriber-only show on Sundays. The more experience I get in it the more bullish I get.

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Now do you get why Elon Musk bought Twitter? Here I am using X Pro (formerly known as Tweetdeck) while at a Tesla supercharger in my Apple Vision Pro. I was doing a FaceTime call with my producer, and playing music too. He told me he didn’t hear any music even when I turned it up to a pretty high volume. Each column is a list. I am the only human to map out the entire AI industry for you here: Add my lists to your account then go to and add them there as columns. Oh, and here you can see another frustration. Liking posts is often very difficult for me. I am sure that will get fixed but for now it is more early adopter pain. If you started X over by using first principles I would radically rethink X for use in vehicles. But, for now, this is pretty damn awesome.

Now do you get why Elon Musk bought Twitter? Here I am using X Pro (formerly known as Tweetdeck) while at a Tesla supercharger in my Apple Vision Pro. I was doing a FaceTime call with my producer, and playing music too. He told me he didn’t hear any music even when I turned it up to a pretty high volume. Each column is a list. I am the only human to map out the entire AI industry for you here: Add my lists to your account then go to and add them there as columns. Oh, and here you can see another frustration. Liking posts is often very difficult for me. I am sure that will get fixed but for now it is more early adopter pain. If you started X over by using first principles I would radically rethink X for use in vehicles. But, for now, this is pretty damn awesome.

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Factory porn. Everything is bigger in Texas.

Factory porn. Everything is bigger in Texas.

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Optimus make me a drink, please. This is not wholly AI. A human is remote assisting. Which means AI day next year where we will see how fast Optimus is learning.

Optimus make me a drink, please. This is not wholly AI. A human is remote assisting. Which means AI day next year where we will see how fast Optimus is learning.

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At the The Humanoid Hub robotics conference in San Francisco and this captures why I love San Francisco. The guy who is giving a keynote today, Nils is talking with Jay@Proception who is making robot hands in USA. I turn on the camera and get a lot of info about what is happening at the bleeding edge. And at the end we talk about the impact Elon Musk is having on not just him but the whole industry.

At the The Humanoid Hub robotics conference in San Francisco and this captures why I love San Francisco. The guy who is giving a keynote today, Nils is talking with Jay@Proception who is making robot hands in USA. I turn on the camera and get a lot of info about what is happening at the bleeding edge. And at the end we talk about the impact Elon Musk is having on not just him but the whole industry.

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This road claims lives every year. This is one of the most dangerous roads in America. A mistake here is like hitting solid concrete at 120 miles per hour. Highway 152 near Gilroy, California. Oncoming traffic at a high rate of speed. Death and destruction only six feet away. Ford’s head of safety told me that most humans don’t do the right thing which is to scrub off maximum energy in to a wreck. I just diss the whole thing without touching my robot once. I am actually a doomer. I think through every millisecond of what would happen if a drunk comes directly at me. You probably won’t survive. But in a Cybercab with no steering wheel there is a good chance. The steering wheel kills many in high speed crashes. Getting rid of the steering wheel and using the extra eight inches of space for a bigger airbag will save many lives. By the way the marketers already know that if you trust a robot to do dangerous jobs for a couple of years you will be happy to trust your Optimus with your sex toys and guns. Figure won’t have the same trust level. Which is why I am most bullish about Tesla when it comes to robots in the home. It doesn’t matter who is first to the home. That won’t be Tesla. It matters most who has the most trust. I will wait for the Tesla. It has earned my trust. My robot does dangerous jobs every day. In the near future the Teslas ahead will warn my robot that a drunk driver is coming so pull over to the side and stop, which is the best action to take. Reduces speed offset by half giving you a dramatically higher chance of survival.

This road claims lives every year. This is one of the most dangerous roads in America. A mistake here is like hitting solid concrete at 120 miles per hour. Highway 152 near Gilroy, California. Oncoming traffic at a high rate of speed. Death and destruction only six feet away. Ford’s head of safety told me that most humans don’t do the right thing which is to scrub off maximum energy in to a wreck. I just diss the whole thing without touching my robot once. I am actually a doomer. I think through every millisecond of what would happen if a drunk comes directly at me. You probably won’t survive. But in a Cybercab with no steering wheel there is a good chance. The steering wheel kills many in high speed crashes. Getting rid of the steering wheel and using the extra eight inches of space for a bigger airbag will save many lives. By the way the marketers already know that if you trust a robot to do dangerous jobs for a couple of years you will be happy to trust your Optimus with your sex toys and guns. Figure won’t have the same trust level. Which is why I am most bullish about Tesla when it comes to robots in the home. It doesn’t matter who is first to the home. That won’t be Tesla. It matters most who has the most trust. I will wait for the Tesla. It has earned my trust. My robot does dangerous jobs every day. In the near future the Teslas ahead will warn my robot that a drunk driver is coming so pull over to the side and stop, which is the best action to take. Reduces speed offset by half giving you a dramatically higher chance of survival.

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Happy Chinese New Year. Yang Liping and the Qwen app just dropped a masterclass. They use AI as a "digital muse" to inspire a brand-new Oriental aesthetic. Qwen provided the creative inspiration. Today Maryam and I are off on a road trip with the kids, who are off school this week, for a few days to southern Utah so will be lighter on posting than usual. Enjoy!

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Mile 1,280 without my hands on the wheel. The autonomous age is here. When I first saw autonomous cars they couldn’t complete DARPAs challenge and they didn’t even have a roundabout as part of the course. Having fun vacation rocking out in California.

Mile 1,280 without my hands on the wheel. The autonomous age is here. When I first saw autonomous cars they couldn’t complete DARPAs challenge and they didn’t even have a roundabout as part of the course. Having fun vacation rocking out in California.

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Yesterday HFØ held its demo day. I've met billionaires who only go to its demo day. I've gone now to three of its demo days, and the companies it brings are generally a cut above others. Here's and its founder, Richie Cartwright presenting it. I watched him work the booth after, meeting investor after investor. The demo worked, got many to come to meet him. He's building an AI Doctor that already is seeing significant sales in Europe. I'll be bringing more of the 14 companies to you as they come out of stealth.

Yesterday HFØ held its demo day. I've met billionaires who only go to its demo day. I've gone now to three of its demo days, and the companies it brings are generally a cut above others. Here's and its founder, Richie Cartwright presenting it. I watched him work the booth after, meeting investor after investor. The demo worked, got many to come to meet him. He's building an AI Doctor that already is seeing significant sales in Europe. I'll be bringing more of the 14 companies to you as they come out of stealth.

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“Hey Cybercab race the Waymo.” Scenes from the future. Only possible in Austin, Texas today.

“Hey Cybercab race the Waymo.” Scenes from the future. Only possible in Austin, Texas today.

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EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: Silicon Valley garage startup building a humanoid robot. $8,000. BOM on robot. K-Scale Labs . 3D printed carbon fiber. 26 high torque electric motors that were stuck in customs for a month. Pre launch. Will be first shown at Y Combinator demo day in April. Company didn’t exist three months ago. This is the purest form of the startup drug.

EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: Silicon Valley garage startup building a humanoid robot. $8,000. BOM on robot. K-Scale Labs . 3D printed carbon fiber. 26 high torque electric motors that were stuck in customs for a month. Pre launch. Will be first shown at Y Combinator demo day in April. Company didn’t exist three months ago. This is the purest form of the startup drug.

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Another piece of bringing manufacturing back to America. A visit to Bucket Robotics in San Francisco. Met founder Matt Puchalski this morning. Makes quality control in factories much better due to computer vision.

Another piece of bringing manufacturing back to America. A visit to Bucket Robotics in San Francisco. Met founder Matt Puchalski this morning. Makes quality control in factories much better due to computer vision.

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The AI beat the human. Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League is exciting. The crowd was pulling for the human. But alas. Exciting Motorsport here in Abu Dhabi. Shows that robots can now compete with humans in Motorsport in a head-to-head race. Here are the final two laps.

The AI beat the human. Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League is exciting. The crowd was pulling for the human. But alas. Exciting Motorsport here in Abu Dhabi. Shows that robots can now compete with humans in Motorsport in a head-to-head race. Here are the final two laps.

575,488 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад

We're back and "Unaligned" this time. A new AI-first interview show starting in September.

We're back and "Unaligned" this time. A new AI-first interview show starting in September.

1,805,761 просмотров • 3 лет назад