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Why we invested in Wandelbots
We’ll come to robots later, but the truth is that for a vast range of tasks in the world economy today all you need is access to a computer; most of global GDP is mediated in some way through screen-based interfaces amenable to an AI. The challenge is in advancing what AI developers call hierarchical planning, stitching multiple goals and subgoals
... See moreMustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
While BBN was a private research firm and the CMU Robotics Institute was technically an academic group, when it came to operations and incentives, the two had more in common with each other than they did with many fellow companies or academic researchers. Both were:
- Novelty-seeking
- Committed to building useful prototypes and technology for users, not
Eric Gilliam • Everything Old is New Again: Old research models for new-era semiconductor research
Logistics Automation Winners Will Be Services, Not Software
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Once one of the industry’s major players begins to gain significant advantages from increased automation, the others will have little choice but to follow suit.
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
While we have learned that in B2B there is often still an element of heavy lifting (i.e. consulting) involved in the early days, we believe that many of the ongoing monitoring efforts can and will be automated through software.