Even Einstein needed a hundred failed attempts before the one that worked. At RAISE Summit, Ekin Dogus Cubuk, Co-CEO of Periodic Labs, made the case that real scientific progress has never come from a static dataset. It comes from a lab that can iterate with the universe itself, trying, failing, and trying again. He connected this to a deeper loop already underway: better AI helps design better chips, and better chips help build better AI. It's a new kind of Moore's Law, but rooted in physical hardware rather than just transistors. The twist making this iteration loop faster than ever? Cheap robotics. Cubuk pointed to simple robots, the kind that can make you coffee at SF airport, now available for around $10,000. That cost drop means physical experiments can now be run faster and far more often, accelerating the entire cycle of discovery. Which changes the arithmetic entirely. If a hundred failed attempts is the price of one breakthrough, the question stops being whether you have the insight and starts being how cheaply and how often you can be wrong. Einstein had a lifetime to run his hundred attempts. The next Einstein might have an afternoon. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch all RAISE Summit 2026 sessions ungated and free.