Why we invested in Wandelbots

One trend to keep an eye on is that we’re likely nearing the end of requiring repetitive, unchanging movements for efficient production processes.Nonrepetitive movements are fundamentally an information problem - they require some method of telling a machine the state of the surrounding environment, and what to do depending on what that state is.

As Ethan said a year ago, it takes 10 hours of monkeying around to get into it. But I think a good AI executive training program can dramatically shorten the window, assuming a growth mindset on the exec’s part. I ran into a retired architect the other day who was bemoaning wanting to work in retirement but he had never learned CAD-CAM! Now he’s tw... See more

It’s a good bet that the field of robotics is poised to follow a similar path; we are, in all likelihood, at the leading edge of an explosive wave of innovation that will ultimately produce robots geared toward nearly every conceivable commercial, industrial, and consumer task. That explosion will be powered by the availability of standardized soft

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