Mike Kalil
@mikekalilmfg
Covering the rise of the machines without an agenda. I interviewed presidential candidates in a past life but robots interest me more today.
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It’s depressing that @WSJ’s journalism standards have sunken so low that it publishes easily disprovable claims.
It’s easier to just run with Foundation Robotics’ lies about its $24 million US military contract than do five minutes of fact checking. It’s like they’re running an Instagram engagement farm rather than a credible news organization.
If they can’t do a basic public database search to check if something is true, how can anything they report on be trusted?
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Almost everyone but Figure AI is moving toward wheeled humanoids for industrial tasks.
Have they backed themselves into a corner? Brett Adcock has come out so aggressively against the concept it’s hard to backpedal.
For homes with stairs, legs are probably more practical but why insist on biped only if you’re trying to deploy at scale?
Doesn’t that shut them out of a lot of potential deals? Are there any potential customers that actually insist on robot workers having two legs?
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