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Nick Dechev

Jun 25, 2026

20:55
What excites you the most?
20:57
It's 100% it's the AI.
20:59
To have a machine operating in the world, it needs to be context aware.
21:04
And that has been missing for the entirety of robotics up until now.
21:09
So the computer vision that you mentioned, that problem has largely been solved since I would say the very early 2000s.
21:17
There was an incredible amount of effort because a camera can gather all that information around the environment and bring it in.
21:26
But then what we were always missing is what does it mean to the machine? And now we're on the dawn of it having a bit of context and making leaps.
22:41
While Nick is hopeful that the advances we're seeing in robot dexterity could spill over and help people, he's still clear-eyed, because the economics here are just really tricky.

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