Another example is industrial robotics, which Beijing began prioritizing in 2015 as part of its Made in China 2025 strategy. At the time, there was a clear rationale for building a stronger domestic robotics industry: China had surpassed Japan to become the world’s largest buyer of industrial robots, accounting for about 20 percent of sales worldwi
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(New Post) - Robotics FOMO, Scaling Laws, & Technology Forecasting
The tech investors and builder ecosystem has gained conviction in robotics faster than any other new deep tech breakthrough I've ever seen.
In this essay I talk through why this happened, including discussing:
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Another growing area is in the ability for robots to swarm, greatly amplifying the potential capabilities of any individual robot into a hive mind. Examples include the Harvard Wyss Institute’s miniature Kilobots—a swarm of a thousand robots that work collectively and assemble in shapes taken from nature that could be used on difficult, distributed
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