CES 2023 Robotics Innovation Awards | Best New Robot Ventures
https://youtu.be/rDlZkeopdtA In this video we take a look at the 4 winners of the CES Innovation Award in the Robotics category. ACWA Robotics – https://www.acwa-robotics.com/ EVAR – https://youtu.be/5on–fx-mjw AGRIST – https://agrist.com/about-agrist-english AmorePacific Tonework – https://us.amorepacific.com/ For more on AI and robotics – https://www.youtube.com/@buildingitAI
Will Innovation Save Us From Recession in 2023? | Investing in Generative AI
https://youtu.be/6zk6zZWFoF8 Welcome to Buildingit.ai, the home of aspiring entreprenuers and investors in AI and Web3! As we approach a recession and the stock market continues to crash many new and experienced investors alike are concerned. How can we navigate this uncertain future? How can we survive, and maybe even prosper in the midst of these tough times? Let’s take a look how investing in new technologies might help.
Elon Musk Greedy Plans for Twitter and Tesla | Who’s the Next CEO?
https://youtu.be/3vvTkysBfVk Let’s examine how Twitter and Tesla will be integrated. We examine how crypto will be integrated in Teslas and the Tesla phone. Comments please – We want to know who should the next Twitter CEO be? And how soon should Elon leave? Can this social media platform ever come back now that it has lost trust?
Best Humanoid Robots in 2023 | Top 3 (#1 is not Optimus)
https://youtu.be/k3H0dYNAw7E In this video we take a look at some of the 5 humanoid robots being developed. The humanoid robots and companies featured in this video in no particular order Agility Robotics – https://agilityrobotics.com/robots Dyson – https://www.dyson.com/newsroom/news/corporate/Robotics Hanson Robotics – https://www.hansonrobotics.com/ Tesla Robot – https://www.tesla.com/AI Boston Dynamics – https://www.bostondynamics.com/atlas Toyota Robotics – https://www.tri.global/our-work/robotics For more on AI and robotics – https://www.youtube.com/@buildingitAI
How to Survive the End of the World | Peter Zeihan Latest is Wrong
https://youtu.be/tw91-_HBBG8 Peter Zeihan is a popular Geopolitical strategist who recently published the book “The End of the World is Just the Beginning”. In the book, Zeihan makes the case that sustainable technology adoption is not realistic globally. In this video we examine the reasons that Peter Zeihan is wrong about Electric Vehicles and sustainable energy. For more on AI and robotics – https://www.youtube.com/@buildingitAI
Tesla Robots Are Losing Direction | Robot SLAM
https://youtu.be/rYamEiiOTVw?list=TLPQMTUwNTIwMjNnes2Po-ogTA In this video we take a look at some of the technology being used in the most advanced humanoid platforms. We feature the use of technologies like computer vision and LIDAR in SLAM and obstacle avoidance for mobile robotics. The humanoid robots and companies featured in this video in no particular order😉 Agility Robotics – https://agilityrobotics.com/robots Dyson – https://www.dyson.com/newsroom/news/corporate/Robotics Hanson Robotics – https://www.hansonrobotics.com/ Tesla Robot – https://www.tesla.com/AI Boston Dynamics – https://www.bostondynamics.com/atlas Toyota Robotics – https://www.tri.global/our-work/robotics For more on AI and robotics – https://www.youtube.com/@buildingitAI
MIT Technology Review 35under35 | Jonas Cleveland | A Robotics Entrepreneur’s Motivation in Johnny5
https://youtu.be/aTeQznp1sJgIn this video, I present some of the exciting work we did at COSY. COSY was the first company to deploy a commercial fleet of mobile robots that localized and mapped their environment using only cameras. In this video, I talk about how my love of robotics started when I was a kid with the movie Short Circuit. And since then, I have been building robots and ventures in the domain of machine perception.
Why Open AI Might be a Great Example of Lillypad Innovation
I recently had a conversation with Dr. Joseph V Sinfield. Joe is the type of guy who got his Ph.D. from MIT while being an early member of a consulting company (Innosight) that recently sold for a $100M+ exit. Among other things, he now serves as a Professor of Innovation at Purdue. Before our chat, I listened to his presentation on Lillypad Innovation. As Dr. Joe explains, LillyPad Innovation is the concept of monetizing an innovation at each stage of its development. Joe presents LillyPad innovation as a potential strategy for a company to scale towards its “ultimate vision” by monetizing smaller steps along the way. Source: OpenAI Jumped Lily Pads to This Moment For companies with moonshot (or Mars-shot) goals like SpaceX. The company’s first business model might revolve primarily around low-orbit rockets for Satellites. This initial product, allows the company to generate revenue and facilitate investment. And eventually, the business model evolves to revolving transport, and eventually (…emphasis on eventually ) Mars-based communities. In addition to SpaceX, Joe touts the X-ray as an example of this Lillypad strategy. The path of innovation for the X-ray was that it began as an electrical-wave experiment, then was a popular attraction at traveling fairs, and now has found its killer (and scaleable ) application in the medical field. Source: Elon Musk Driving on Mars with SpaceX by OpenAI I basically do not agree with this philosophy of LillyPad innovation. I would characterize the X-ray as a breakthrough technology that went through iterative development as ancillary technologies required for its improved to support multiple businesses that use X-ray. I would argue that the SpaceX “innovation” of trips to Mars is not really an innovation, but actually, a series of productized technologies that are moving the company towards more revenue. Even if SpaceX never gets to Mars, it might thrive economically for generations. A breakthrough innovation is often founded on a breakthrough technology (think Google Page Rank algorithm). But a mission statement “organizing all of the world’s information” (Google’s original company mission) or a “Mars Community ” (SpaceX), is not a breakthrough innovation. You can innovate towards your mission and in alignment with your core competency. But a business model towards a “breakthrough innovation”, I do not know of a good example. BUT… if any example might exist, it would be OpenAI. Overlooking the fact that OpenAI (funded by SF-Billionaires Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Doo Doo Head), did not choose a strategy based on capital deficiency but on determining product-market fit as quickly as possible, OpenAI did create a “breakthrough innovation” over 6 years while iterating over small revenue producing products. One could characterize ChatGPT-3 or human relatable chat as being a “breakthrough innovation”. It is a breakthrough innovation that consists of several innovations – Google’s Transformer AI model, OpenAI’s Embeddings methodology, and OpenAI’s human-in-the-loop training mechanism. Source: Demo of How to Use OpenA’s DALL-E OpenAI’s lilypad? Started as a non-profit for moonshots in AI. Created an interface for user experimentation – Gym. A coding GPT-3 co-pilot used by IBM, Salesforce, Cisco, and Intel. ChatGPT-3 was released in 2022 and now the API generates an estimated $360K/day. A quick sidenote – One of the most interesting things to observe with ChatGPT3, is the pervasiveness of the overnight success myth (OpenAI was founded in 2015) and the over-hyping of technology. Anyhow, those are my airplane flight musings. I am really interested in Generative AI as a creator and consumer. I think I will be writing more about it.