Science fiction has given us the idea of super-advanced android robots like those in ‘Westworld’, ‘Megan’, or ‘Humans’. But long before that point is reached, much simpler robots will be widespread and very useful. It feels like we are on the verge of that happening. There are almost twenty humanoid robot start-ups around the world. Here we can see how many of them may soon be successful.
Multimodal AI is already here. The robot start-ups don’t have to build it, they just have to integrate it into their existing products. These robots can be cheap or expensive, but that doesn’t matter so much. The real power is in the AI.
The real power is in the AI.
No, the real power is in properly understanding, applying, designing, maturing, and integrating, the technology, such that it’s actually a useful product on the other end. AI is not a magic duct tape with which you slap the wildest venture capital dreams together with.
