The hard problem in robotics is not manufacturing scale but achieving true intelligence—current robots exist but are useless without onboard AI.

18:30he saw our stuff and he's just like holy [ __ ] man. This is the first time I've ever seen anybody that could possibly take out like take out the big guys. >> Well, is it true to say that with like Archer, Figure, and Harkc, the the hard problem seems like can I just massproduce this? >> The hard problem is not that. We think we believe now the most important

18:50constraint to really solve is like building a really intelligent robot system to the world. Like there's a bunch of robots you can go buy now. You can buy some from China and you get them and they're complete crap. They can't do anything. They like you can joy sticking around. That's all you can do. And you like hit a button and it waves. It's got no hands. It's got nubs. And you're

19:08like, "What do I do with this thing? It's a toy." It's like It's like It's like early when I bought a I bought a DJI drone like years ago and I was like playing around with it. Then like a day later, I was like, "What do I do with this thing?" >> And uh it was like it was like hard to set up. It didn't really work well. Like

19:18you know, whatever. It's just like I flew into a bunch of trees. It just didn't work. I was like, "This is what am I doing with this thing?" Robots are like that now. Like where you can we can go manufacture a ton of them, but like if they're not really smart, like it's not really going to be that helpful. We're trying to crack like the true human level intelligence of figure. Like

19:33we really want to tackle like how do we make it so I can put it into any home. It can do every every every job I'd want it to do. That's what we're working on. We think that's the largest like like you know think about the largest like gap in the schedule of what we need to go solve for. Like it's that then beyond that like you know people generally

19:50sometimes confuse like consumer electronics manufacturing with car manufacturing. There's no company big company in the world that would look like say like uh uh I'm scared of manufacturing this consumer electronics at high rate if there's so much demand like this is just possible to go do I mean you can make them you make we make a billion phones almost like you know pseudo by hand in the world and with

20:09some automation but cars is a different story cars like you will die trying to manufacture cars there's like there's like lot of like you just like it's so and having seen like you know BMW is a commercial customer of us I haven't been in BMW and a few other groups like it's gnarly early. The reason why cars are so hard is that you can't hold the part in