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> Yes. I've known people with robotics startups, and have visited some of them. They're all gone now. But that was all prior to about 2015. Lots of dotcom bust
by rapsey 2y ago
> Yes. I've known people with robotics startups, and have visited some of them. They're all gone now. But that was all prior to about 2015.
Lots of dotcom busts in the late 90s were concepts that worked 10-15 years later. We just did not have broadband and smartphones. Battery and AI tech is quite likely to be the missing piece robotics lacked in the past.
- alephnerd 2y ago> Battery and AI tech is quite likely to be the missing piece robotics lacked in the past. Cheap semiconductors as well. Fabricating a chip on a 28nm and 48nm process is extremely commodified nowadays. These are the same processes used to fabricate an Nvidia Tesla or an i7 or Xeon barely a decade ago, so the raw compute power available at extremely commodified prices is insane. Just about every regional power has the ability to fabricate an Intel i7 or Nvidia Tesla equivalent nowadays. And most regional powers have 3-7 year plans to build domestic 14nm fabrication capacity as well now. A number of firms like Taiwan's PSMC have made a killing selling the end-to-end IP and workflow for fabrication.