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Toward a Horizontal Robotics Platform | Andreessen Horowitz

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An acceleration of talent, capital, and research progress in the robotics domain could enable the development of a horizontal robotics platform.

AI is finally beginning to fulfill its massive transformative potential, as evidenced by the spate of new AI-enabled products across text, images, video, audio, and more. But as far as production-ready products go, one modality has thus far been notably less present from this ongoing Cambrian explosion of AI: physical actions. The types of physical actions generally performed by robots have largely been trapped within the confines of Moravec’s paradox and have seen nowhere near the pace of advancement as in other modalities. There are, of course, understandable reasons for this, ranging…

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