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Anki Co-Founder

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“Really hard question is how do you go from no manipulation to manipulation in a small step? So if you look at the most popular robot ever in the history of robotics is the room of vacuum cleaner because they found this one task that a robot can do poorly and still make you happy. Right, I mean, it doesn't matter, right? It's just, it's better than nothing.”
2018-11-21 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The IQ and EQ of Robots · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In the supply chain. And so we could, in effect, turn this into a software problem where now because of the capability set, everything becomes driven by our ability to expand the capabilities with software.”
2018-11-21 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The IQ and EQ of Robots · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We end up being able to mass produce this sort of capability that even five years earlier would have probably cost multiples of that amount or just been absolutely impossible. We basically became for our early products scavengers of the smartphone industry. So you have computation, you have memory, you have cameras that now suddenly cost 50 cents versus $6. You have motors and accelerometers and different types of sensors that allow you to actually do these sort of things that you couldn't do before.”
2018-11-21 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The IQ and EQ of Robots · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's part of the holy grail mobile manipulation. There aren't a lot of robots like that. A landmark in the history of consumer robotics was the Sony IBO robot dog back in the late 1990s, early 2000s. It cost about $2,000 back then, which was about the cost of a decent laptop. And this was the only little mobile robot you could buy that could see and had a built-in camera. You could program it in C++ and could move around. So it was a mobile manipulator. Unfortunately, Sony sold fewer than 200,000 of these over the six-year life of the product line. In January 2006, they left the robotics business altogether. And so the idea of a consumer affordable mobile manipulator just died.”
2018-11-21 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The IQ and EQ of Robots · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, there's all of these types of challenges that involve really deep breakthroughs in human-robot interface or manipulation or AI. There's the large scale, diverse humanoid or very competent robot for home or for manufacturing or for other things. There's applications that involve very high-end manipulation in an environment where manipulation is today is probably where autonomous driving was five or six years ago, where you can already see the capability starting to take form, but the reliability and cost constraints are still pretty prohibitive. But you can kind of extrapolate where it's going. For us, we started with entertainment because that was a way to create innovative applications and actually build the muscle early on that we can then carry over into these other spaces down the road. Cosmo was a way to use the toy space, which hadn't seen much innovation at all. But for the first time, bring a robot to life where the level of creativity that you're like.”
2018-11-21 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The IQ and EQ of Robots · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so when we started Anki, we always realized that in order to get into some of these really advanced applications, we had to take a bottoms-up approach and we couldn't just skip to this holy grail that's 10 years away. We had to think about what are the applications where we could really reinvent the quality of what's possible.”
2018-11-21 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The IQ and EQ of Robots · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source