Met Companies:

Puppet

  • Orchestration by skilled workers through teleop

  • Vertical application → abstract?

  • Q: Puppet founder talked about AI layers that posed a question when questions

  • Compare to waymo’s “call a person to make a decision when AI fails”

  • Compare to “agents for orchestration” companies

Droyd

  • Vertical robotics for data center cabling

  • Ground robot able to plug in cables

Space robotics

  • Orbital Ops (?)

  • High-throughput space vehicles for orbital logistics

  • Icarus

  • Microgravity cargo robots for the ISS

  • Question:

  • Robots for logistics?

  • Robots in semi-deterministic environments?

  • Is the ability to operate in less deterministic environments the key?


Vertical Physical AI

Cavalla

  • Automated forklifts

Serpent Robotics

  • Tree climbing / vegetation management

Capable

  • Automating Lab Processes

Tuesday

  • Bipedal / bimanual (why bipedal, this will make it much more difficult to navigate around)

  • Mechanical?

Chef Robotics

  • Vertical physical ai for kitchens

  • Skills -> High operational overhead (wonder what squo is for chef on a data flywheel? Is it possible the high ops overhead is primarily from gathering data for completely novel skills)

  • -> Combined with many hardware system for open sourced skills dev demonstrates something about the nature of training a skill

THEMES

  1. Skilled labor automation
  • Puppet

  • Droyd

  • Automated forklifts

  • Space robotics

  • What is the natured of skilled? How much decisionmaking is being done by the humans in the status quo in skilled enviornments (ie: electricians, construction) -> companies usually want consistent work

  1. Infrastructure robotics
  • Data centers (layer for developing AI economy)

  • Warehouses 

  • Space logistics 

  • Vegetation management 

  1. Environment complexity
  • Deterministic vs. semi-deterministic environments

  • Where robots can reliably succeed today

  • How to scale skills dev

  1. Data as the moat
  • Proprietary data collection

  • Egocentric/consumer data

  1. Automating Orchestration/Other Meta Skills?

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