A difficult thing to do with evaluating startups is clearly seeing where they can go vs where they are now. Consider Amazon: they were a bookseller because Jeff

A difficult thing to do with evaluating startups is clearly seeing where they can go vs where they are now. Consider Amazon: they were a bookseller because Jeff Bezos wanted to start an ecommerce company and books were a good starting place, but their trajectory and path grew to be so much more. Similarly, there's a bunch of robot startups that aren't really _about_ the thing they're trying to do right now, so much as they want to make general purpose robots that can handle all sorts of tasks. In this case they landed on farming, but there have been other seemingly dumb robot applications. For example: check out this massively expensive robot arm (that could easily kill a worker) that has been used instead of just putting the conveyor belt directly into the conveyor belt oven. https://youtu.be/uFSdxwRVh8A https://youtu.be/uFSdxwRVh8A That company isn't interested in Pizzas or restaurants per se (if they were they'd make something more like a frozen pizza factory) they're just using it as a proving ground. There is real innovation happening in the farming space but it looks like the video you posted or these automatic milking robots or something else that really helps out. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/nyregion/with-farm-robotics-the-cows-decide-when-its-milking-time.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/nyregion/with-farm-roboti...