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What really surprises me is Apple is now 2 trillion dollars with another gajillion sitting in cash. Why are they being an optimization company and not really pu

• cpgxiii 6y ago
  As difficult as it is, control for launching and landing a rocket is vastly easier computationally than even apparently simple robotics problems. Robotics is simply hard, from algorithmic, computational, and engineering perspectives. Only some parts of it can be solved by throwing money and raw compute power at it. Even in areas where progress has been made, you generally need experts to decompose the problem at hand into something that can be tackled with existing techniques,and those experts are expensive and in relative demand.