Limitless: An AI Podcast - Tesla's Optimus vs Figure 3: The Humanoid Robot Showdown

Episode Date: October 10, 2025

Two humanoid robots walk into your house—a quiet helper and a flashy fighter—and we ask which you’d actually want.We break down what today’s leading models can really do in the home�...�cleaning, sorting, recharging themselves—and what still feels like demo magic.Then we compare the philosophies behind them: data-trained brains and dexterous hands vs raw agility and massive manufacturing muscle.Big picture, we debate whether this is the “ChatGPT moment” for robots and where they’ll show up first—from your kitchen to factories and hotels.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ: LISTEN & FOLLOW HERE ⬇️https://limitless.bankless.com/https://x.com/LimitlessFT------TIMESTAMPS00:00 Intro To Figure 303:42 Magic Fingertips10:26 It's Not Just A Household Robot14:02 It's All About The Hands15:57 Kung Fu Optimus20:50 Manufacturing vs Data25:12 The $21,000 Walmart Robot------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/Josh_KaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

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Starting point is 00:00:00 So two humanoid robots, they walk into your house. One of them is Tesla's Optimus robot. It kind of flexes like a karate kid. It thinks it's really tough. It wants to be a fighter. And then there's figure three, which is from a company named figure that just was announced today. And this new robot, it just quietly loves the dishwasher. It goes and folds the towels.
Starting point is 00:00:21 And then it goes and recharges by standing on this giant wireless phone charger. So the question to you is, which one's actually closer to the real helper? Which one do you want in your house? We have figure three just announced. We're going to dig into that. And then we have Tesla Optimus Robot, which is very clearly the, I'd say the biggest competition in the world of humanoid robots and the race to become the best one. Thankfully, I have moved to a safer neighborhood since back in the day, Josh.
Starting point is 00:00:43 So I think right now I would choose the humanoid helper robot. I'm not one for folding my clothes that often, so I would love something to replace it. Speaking of, that is essentially Figure 3, which is the new robot released by the company figure. The way I would describe it is it is a hyper-realistic human. robot that does a lot of housework, Josh. And the reason why this is important is this is something that not just myself, but many other people I feel would use. I've got the announcement video, which literally just released less than an hour ago. So Josh and I are like fresh off the
Starting point is 00:01:17 press on this one. You can see it doing a bunch of things. It's sorting out groceries. It's cleaning the table. It is taking the dog for a walk, throwing a ball for the dog to go catch. It is placing towels for you. All in all, I, if you'd put this in a human mask, and human clothing, I would mistake it for a human, apart from maybe some robotic movements. And that's kind of like a lot of credit to how they built this. But in figure's own words, the goal with this was to deliver a truly general purpose robot, one that can perform human-like tasks and learn directly from people. To realize this vision, our engineering and design teams completed a ground-up hardware and software redesign. So Josh, they built this from the scratch. This was a
Starting point is 00:02:00 labor of passion for them. And I would say that they are four main highlights from this new robot, which makes it so special. Number one is something called Helix, which is their vision language action model. So if we think about chat GPT, which is the most popular AI model, this is an LLM, a large language model, right? So you input text and characters and you get text and characters out. Now, for robots, they can't operate just from text. They need to use various other inputs like vision, audio, and a number of different things, and translate that into movement, into sight, into sound. So a much more complex problem to solve, and the model therefore is built very differently. Helix is figure three's model, and it's their proprietary secret source. What they've
Starting point is 00:02:44 done is they've trained this model to work directly with this robot, or rather the other way around, the hardware is engineered around this model specifically. One of the coolest things they highlight from this model and this new robot is the vision capabilities, Josh. So, the camera architecture is pretty insane. It delivers twice the frame rate than its previous robot, one quarter of the latency, which means that it reacts super quickly and intuitively, and 60% wider field of view, which means that it just sees things. It's better from a safety perspective, and it's way better in terms of like acclimatizing to your life. So it could catch out of the corner of the eye that Josh is exiting the room and maybe it goes over to the sofa and
Starting point is 00:03:24 tidies up the cushions for you, right? It's just way more hyper-aware. The other thing, Josh is the hat. And I know that's a really weird thing to raise, but have you, have you seen a picture of this? Yeah. Hands for people that don't know, they're the most important parts of humanoid robots. They're the most difficult thing to create and emulate. And a figure has a new attempt that they're calling tactile sensing, right? This is what we're looking at here with the cameras built in. Yep. Yep. So what you're seeing on your screen, and for those of you who are just listening, is this hyper-realistic robotic hand, but it has a, camera in the palm of it. And you might be wondering, well, why the hell does it do that if you've
Starting point is 00:04:03 just told me about a camera that it already uses in its head like its eyes? The reasoning for this is, as Josh mentioned, the hand is arguably the most important part of humanoid robots, right? It's going to be carrying the things that you love, tidying up after you. You don't want it to break a glass. You don't want it to go smashing about the house. And so with this camera, it gives it a much better sensory depth for these tiny movements, for picking up a cloth versus is picking up a box, how much force to use, how much grip to use. And that's what this camera is is enhanced by. And it's really a completely new sensory suite, as they describe it, Josh. Yeah, there's a couple things. One, with hardware devices, generally version three is when they
Starting point is 00:04:43 actually get good. And I think that's probably the case with this. The first version is very much the beta version and the testing version, you're just happy to get something out of the factory. The second version fixes all the problems with the first version. That was a disaster. And then the third version has learned enough through iteration that it kind of understands the downfalls of previous generations and is able to build an actually good product that's usable, that's distributed at scale. And I think that's the case that we're seeing with Figure today, where they've made it through their third version.
Starting point is 00:05:09 They have gotten their battle scars. They have the patches on their shirt. And they're like, okay, this is a good robot. This is a robot that will work. This is a robot that will add value people's lives. And it actively is. One of the fun facts that I got this morning while I was reading about this is this robot's actually stationed inside of a, I think, BMW factory or Mercedes, one of the car dealerships.
Starting point is 00:05:28 And it's actually in a factory. Yeah, it's actually in there working and doing things and being a productive robot. So that's a cool thing. I think second to that is the hands. You mentioned the hands. They have a camera in them. And initially, I was a pretty big hater on the camera, because similar to the LiDAR conversation when it comes to full self driving cars, it feels dumb and redundant to add these sensors that you don't need. Like, as a human, we don't know. As a human, we don't have cameras in her hands. We just have, we got two eyes. And with those two eyes, we could do everything that we need. So why on earth would you spend extra money and technology on putting extra sensors in the hands? And then I was like, you know what? If I could have a camera on my
Starting point is 00:06:05 hand, I wouldn't hate it. Like, you could kind of reach around things. You could see things that you wouldn't normally see. If you could just stick an eyeball to both hands. So I think I'm starting to change my mind on how these robots are augmented, meaning I don't hate if you add a couple extra sensors in the same way that it's kind of a waste for full self-driving, but it's not quite for humanoid robots. And another thing is in that video you were showing, it has like the tactile fingertips. And the fingertips are a really difficult part of humanoid robots too, because you kind of need to be able to feel things in order for it to work. Like if you don't have senses in the tips of your fingers, you're not really sure how hard you're grabbing onto fragile things. And what
Starting point is 00:06:43 figured did with this is they added these tactile fingertips. We'll put them on screen right now. Yeah. And within those fingertips, they're able to detect up to three grams. of force, which is pretty light. So you can touch some pretty light things. I wouldn't feel too worried about it touching fragile objects. And that's a really big deal. One of the cool things that we haven't mentioned yet that I actually loved is the fact that it has wireless inductive charging through the feet, which is something pretty new and novel. So this robot will kind of go around your house, we'll do the chores, and it will just stand on top of this little charging footpad and charge itself up through inductive charging. And while it does that, it will dump off data at 10
Starting point is 00:07:24 gigabits per second on its millimeter wave length antennas to upload to the mega mind and further train these models. So it's a really, it's a cool iteration. I mean, this version, I think they said it's 9% lighter than figure two. Its runtime is listed for about five hours. And it's good for about 1.2 meters per second in terms of walking speed, which is sufficient enough to be a version one inside of house. And I think that's kind of what they want to showcase in this demo is, hey, the robot's good enough now that it works. Like, you can actually put this in a household and it will serve some sort of value. How much value? I don't know. Is it going to take 10 minutes to clean up a couch that would take a human 30 seconds? Probably. But it's going to do it while you're not there and while you're
Starting point is 00:08:04 not thinking about it. And the same way I think people are very comfortable with like the Roomba robots, the ones that just kind of like scan through your floor and clean it up, like mops and vacuums and stuff. I think people will very quickly start to get comfortable with this. The one thing that I didn't hear about was pricing. I'd love to know what their strategy is for actually taking these to market. Do you find anything on pricing or just general go-to-market strategy? No. It's simple onset.
Starting point is 00:08:28 Yeah, so there's probably no pricing yet, but what they are doing is they're building a dedicated plant just to stamping these things out. I think what they did with the previous iterations that really just didn't get the job done is they were custom tooling all of these things. They made like custom tooling. They were creating these things using CNC mills. It took a long time. It was very expensive.
Starting point is 00:08:47 They've built a new factory. They call it Bach Q, which is all about die casting and injection molding and stamping. And these things are very scalable. They're very easy to make. They lower the cost quite a bit. So while they didn't talk about cost, they did talk about output, which is hopefully 12,000 of these per year, initially. And then 100,000 over the next four years, which seems reasonable. I think a lot of times with these robots, the hardest thing is to make them. Like, we've seen so many sick robot demos that look incredible, but no one can make more than like 10 out of time because they don't have the manufacturing force. So building a factory that is good for 12,000 units a year, that's great. That is a leader so far. I know Tesla has a new roadmap for the optimist robot.
Starting point is 00:09:26 They plan on making probably a lot more by an order of magnitude. But having solved manufacturing, at least being on the way to solving manufacturing, is the most difficult thing about robots. So very, very optimistic to see that covered by the figure team. Yeah, I think it's really important to emphasize that this robot is completely autonomous. There is no teleoperator somewhere in a front of. foreign country that's kind of like looking through the camera and seeing the actions that it does and improving it or helping it when it goes wrong. This thing sits in your home. It charges itself,
Starting point is 00:09:56 fire its toes or feet or whatever it might be. And it just does things. Autonomously, it learns actively from your habits as well. So it's not some kind of pre-programmed robot. It's looking at everything through its camera feed. It's hearing things. And it's improving each and every day to become your ultimate household robot. But here's the thing, Josh. It isn't just a house robot actually. At the end of this video, and I'm going to skip ahead here, you see it as a concierge at a hotel. I mean, I have to say that's the coolest concierge ever. If I walk into a hotel and I had this guy telling me where to go, I would be like in awe, essentially. And this is their attempt to say, or figures attempt to say, hey, we've got the hospitality industry on lockdown as well, but we also
Starting point is 00:10:40 have the manual labor side of things, right? So you're seeing one of the figure robots delivering a package. So you can imagine Amazon deliveries or any kind of deliveries in the future being managed by your robots. I sure as heck hope that they are cheaper, that they are more precise, and that they don't damage my package. FedEx, I'm talking about you.
Starting point is 00:10:57 You're looking at a factory version of this robot as well. Josh, you mentioned earlier that I think BMW is using it to construct cars. Now one of these robots can sort your packages out. And you might not think that that is cool, but that was a problem that Amazon spent upwards of, I think $1.5 billion to try and automate with their own manual robots. So it is not an easy task. It is an incredibly costly task. And I'm sure that there are a number of different factories that would gladly use these things. So the point is figure three, whilst it's being pitched to
Starting point is 00:11:29 retail as this home robot, and whilst I think that's a really good approach and it's why the majority of people will buy these things, I actually think there's a secret purchaser, which is in the industrial hardware world where they're like, hey, you know, I would love to use a pair of hands. that are cheap and that won't break down and that can run 24-7 for me. I think that's great. And then the last thing I want to mention is, I don't want to underscore the point you made, Josh, around scaling these things. Because as you said, like, 100 robots doesn't really make an impact, but 100 million robots now we're cooking. And Brett's commentary over here in this announcement video and in his announcement blog post was all around building this
Starting point is 00:12:08 robot specifically to scale. The manufacturing plant that you mentioned that builds these robots was completely redesigned from the first version of this robot with this in mind. And so I'm excited to see whether we all end up with one of these in our homes. Yeah, manufacturing is really, like, I can't understate how difficult that is and how much of a limiting factor that is in the success of these robot companies that we're talking about. I really respect and admire the fact the figure is taking this very seriously, seemingly more so than nearly every other company outside of, I would say, Tesla. A hundred thousand is, it's a serious amount. I mean, that is a lot of humanoid robots to be walking around. The goal is going to be that number you said, EJA, is like, can we get 100 million
Starting point is 00:12:47 of these? How close can they get to 100 million? Because as these things get a little bit more valuable, more practical, they start solving more use cases, they start generating more productivity. That can offset significant parts of the economy. If you can go into factories, if they can take care of things at the house that a normal housemaid would do, these things are really important to get right, because if you get them right, there is an infinite upside in terms of demand. for human labor. And if a robot can do human labor without any of the human downsides, that's a really big deal. And I think right now figure sits at the top of this race. I'm not sure I've seen any robots that are this good and have the capability of scaling. Hold your horses,
Starting point is 00:13:28 Josh. You're forgetting about the number one company. The number one man. Oh, I would never. It rhymes with feline husk. I have a cool video before we get into it, Josh, which is Not an entire humanoid, but part of a humanoid. It's a hand. Can you explain what's going on here? Yes. So going back to the hand thing, hands, most important part of a robot, they are the, it's surprisingly complex our hands. Like if you just kind of, if you're sitting here listening, just kind of flare off. Yeah. So your hands have these things called degrees of freedom. A lot of people online call them DOF. And a degree of freedom is how many independent ways a joint system can move. The human hand, we have 27. So each one of our four fingers has four of them. Our thumb has five.
Starting point is 00:14:12 and our wrist has six. So all of these things that our hands can do, move laterally, bend, fold, those are all our degrees of freedom. What you're seeing here in the Tesla Optimus demo is that this hand now has 22 degrees of freedom and the previous was just 11. So 22 is the closest we've gotten to the human hand. And that's really important because once we reach 27 and once you get the dexterity of a human hand with the correct sensory inputs and outputs, you essentially have the full capability that a human does in terms of how you engage with the world. Because our hands, we can do 27 different movements. If a robot can do the same, in theory, there is no difference between our capabilities and a human robot. And what we're seeing here is, I mean, Optimus got pretty
Starting point is 00:14:52 freaking close. And this is the hand that's going to roll out in their new version that we haven't seen yet. So I'm very excited. It's insane tune for that. But figure has also been on this challenge. And while I'm a little disappointed, I don't think they've specified how many degrees of freedom the figure three hand has, it looks like it is a good amount. And we can go based off of the previous hands. So figure two, the previous robot, their hands had 16 degrees of freedom, which is pretty good because Optimus Gen 2 had 11 degrees of freedom. So they were very much ahead in terms of degrees of freedom. Figure three, we don't know. They look pretty good. But maybe this is a good opportunity to jump into Tesla and what they're doing and just kind of quickly compare Tesla versus
Starting point is 00:15:32 figure. So, yeah, okay. So what we're talking about different? different worlds here, Josh, to be specific, the other side of the world. This video was just all over my feed earlier this week. And it was the most bizarre thing ever because I was like, wait, this robot can fight. So what we're seeing on our screen right now is Tesla's Optimus Prime robot doing a martial arts session with a martial arts teacher. And it is surprisingly good. I'm going to start it from the beginning here. It's dapping the guy up and then it goes into our entire sequence. And I guess the first thing that pops out to me here, Josh, is how agile it is. Look at it bouncing, look at its hand movements, but also look at every other bit of movement. Its head,
Starting point is 00:16:17 its legs, it's so fluid, it stumbles at some point, and then it corrects itself. I know we've spent a lot of time talking about the hand side of things, but it seems like Elon's been cooking up an entirely different type of robot, one, which is pretty actionable. And I guess the point that's being made here is we have two types of marketing efforts going on here. in classic, I guess, robot style, you have someone that's like, hey, you know, this is a productive robot. It can replace manual labor. It can work in your factory. But most importantly, it can help you in your home.
Starting point is 00:16:46 It can help you fall clothes, right? And Elon goes in classic Elon style and says, I'm going to demonstrate how agile and competent my robot is, but through a fight sequence, right? And this wasn't the only video that was going viral this week. There was also this one where I thought this was super cool. He premiered Optimus Prime at the Tron Aries movie premiere. where he's basically sizing up to one of the actors here and, I don't know, challenging him to a fight, I guess. He's also dressed and looks like a Tronbot, which is super cool. I don't know, Josh, do you have any thoughts on this?
Starting point is 00:17:18 I thought it was super cool. Yeah. First, we can call Optimus Prime. Optimus Prime is the transformer. This one's just Optimus. I call it Optimus Prime. I know it's not Optimus Prime, but it is. Okay, so this robot, I mean, again, this gets back to the intro that we were talking about.
Starting point is 00:17:32 It's like, do you want this, like, very calm, cool, collective thing that's going to slowly get the job? done or do you want this like freak of nature that's just going to like just maybe move fast and break things I think they're kind of approaching it from two separate things the speed and dexterity of the optimist robot is remarkable the fact that is moving this quickly this soon is so it's so impressive at first I thought that first video you were showing was teleoperated because a lot of the way that optimist has been engaging with the real world has been through teleoperators basically what they are is there humans that will wear sensors on their hands or maybe they'll use a body motion tracking suit, and they will move and control the robot basically manually. So the robot's doing the
Starting point is 00:18:11 movements, but the AI isn't controlling it. It is the human that's controlling it. What was fascinating about this demo is that's the AI controlling it. There is no human input. There is no teleoperation. So the robot's just moving that fast. Now, how is this possible? And just going down the rabbit hole of Tesla's supply chain, I started to realize that the reason this is working so well is because no one else makes the actuators or the motors that this robot's using. The actuators being the way that the movement happens between joints. Tesla's building all this stuff in-house. And as a result, they're getting this really tight vertical integration loop where things are just moving faster. They're more efficient. They're getting faster at a higher accelerated rate.
Starting point is 00:18:50 And going back to the manufacturing, Tesla already has that advantage of having factories and having scaled basically robots. If you think of optimists like a car, it's very similar, except you swap out the wheels for some limbs. It uses the same type of machine learning model. And what we're seeing, again, throughout the entire Tesla stack is this vertical integration. So now they're having their AI training that happens for cars. They're merging that with the humanoid robot training. And now all this data is going towards one singular mission. And the same thing we had an episode a few weeks ago with the AI5 chip. Well, the AI5 chip runs in cars, but now it's also going to run an optimist. So a lot of the manufacturing problems that figure still has to figure out, Tesla has solved
Starting point is 00:19:29 through the cars and is now able to roll it out at scale much quicker. I think this robot that we're seeing here is not going to be a final form. It's not going to be the thing that's in our house. Supposedly version three is coming a little bit later this year. And like we mentioned earlier, version three is the good ones. We want to buy version three's of robots. So we've seen figure three is version three. We've seen figures version three. And I'm very much looking forward to seeing Optimus's version three because it looks great. I trust Tesla as a company to manufacture these at scale. Figure very much feels like the rivian of this space right now where they are a clear second place with a chance to do something unique and novel. I think these early days are when they really
Starting point is 00:20:08 have a chance to break free. And I think both companies are doing great. I'm bullish on both. I would love to get the opportunity to chat with someone from either of the company so we can hear firsthand how figure plans to kick Tesla's ass because they got a very steep uphill battle see I don't know if I agree that figures in second place here I get your point around the manufacturing side being a really trick you want to resolve but it seems like Brett and the team have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure this out and I know recently like they raised a couple billion and God knows what they're valued out right now but it sounds like they also have the capital arsenal to be able to spend and and figure this problem out I'm sure
Starting point is 00:20:49 they have a bunch of experts to work on that. But I kind of frame the end goal maybe slightly differently. Whilst manufacturing is going to be really important, you want to get a bunch of robots out there, I think the second order effect, which is the data that they get from these different robots is going to be the real game changer, right? Because as we mentioned earlier, like to train these visual language action models, you need a ton of data, which either doesn't really exist right now or is super hard to access, right?
Starting point is 00:21:18 I think about all this important manual labor vision data. Like the people working at factories aren't necessarily wearing cameras. But now some of these robot companies are paying workers out there to wear these cameras so that they can eventually be replaced. I saw a bunch of videos from this happening in China. So I think this is going to be a race towards who can get the most comprehensive data and train the best model and translate that into whatever type of hardware component. And so I guess maybe a hot take would be some of these hardware components will eventually
Starting point is 00:21:47 become incredibly commoditized. I think Elon is going to be the first one there because he's building it in-house. But whether it'll be the cheapest, whether it'll be the most scalable is to be determined, right? Like, we'll try to be able to create a manufacturing plant and supply chain, which is just so much quicker for the Brett Adcocks and figures of the world to be able to tap in and buy the actuator separately and race ahead. I don't know, but it's going to be pretty exciting to watch. Yeah, that's fair. I guess on the technicality, in first place. It's kind of like saying GPD 5 is the best model knowing Gemini 3 is coming out next week. It's like, okay, sure. Like you're the best, enjoy your time in the spotlight, but like
Starting point is 00:22:25 buckle up because the big boys are coming. And that's very much what it feels like for Tesla. Listen, I wish both of them the best of luck. I am so stoked that we are getting robots that like the future. Like the future, this is the coolest thing is there is a very small window of time left where you can walk down the street and there will not be a humanoid or you can go into your errands for the day. They won't be a humanoid robot that you're interacting with, Whether it's in your home, whether it's at a gas station, whether it's at a grocery store. Dude, that's one the other day. Walking on my high street.
Starting point is 00:22:53 A humanoid? Yeah, a humanoid. It was called the Riz spot. And it was walking around, wrizzing people up. I don't know if you've seen some of the videos go up. I found it hilarious. So I don't know. It's not mass appeal just yet, but I saw one.
Starting point is 00:23:07 Yeah, this is a very exciting time. I'm stoked for figure. I'm stoked for Tesla and the team. Both are going to have phenomenal robots, I'm sure of it. and I am hopeful that the day will come very soon, that we'll actually be able to try these. I'd love to have a robot walking around, cleaning stuff up,
Starting point is 00:23:21 or just see them in our day-to-day life. Because for the people who aren't listening to the show, who aren't really on the cutting edge of technology, they don't understand what the hell is happening. They have no idea that we are on the cusp of, like, we have AGI coming. We have robots that act just like humans. We have all this productive technology
Starting point is 00:23:37 that is going to upset so much of their, like, day-to-day lives. And I think only once the robots start walking down the street, Only once the robots are like in their face will it feel like, oh my God, wait a second, what is happening here? And Figure is playing a very large role in making that a reality. So feeling good, feeling optimistic about the robots. It feels like we're getting super close to the chat GPT moment for robots where they're actually quite good. They actually seem quite magical and they add a lot of value to our life. I mean, like look at these four pictures from Tesla here.
Starting point is 00:24:11 You've got it doing housework. You've got it doing outside chore work. You've got it at the lab, cooking up something, God knows what. And you've got it in the sauna for some reason. I don't know why I would want to see a robot in a sauna, to be honest. But I'm sure a lot of you listening to this is like, well, okay, I've seen a bunch of demos. You guys have spoken about a bunch of launches, but there's no delivery time. All these Tesla Optimus robots are still somewhat not at scale yet.
Starting point is 00:24:35 So we can't see it in our homes anytime soon. What can I buy right now? Well, I have an answer for you. and unfortunately the video that's displaying it is a very violent video. But it is Unitree's newest robot. I think it's Unitree 3, which you can now buy from Walmart, Josh, for the casual price of $21,600. I thought this was fake.
Starting point is 00:24:57 So I went on the Walmart website myself and unfortunately, fortunately, can report that it is real. I do not advise abusing your robot though. What I've seen, it's funny, there's different tracks that these companies are taking. Unitary is very much taking the build, low-cost one and solve for the marketing first. So I see Unitri on like YouTube vlogs. I see people talking about it on Instagram. It does these like backflips, dude. It's very impressive.
Starting point is 00:25:23 It's very impressive. I think it's a dumb robot, relatively speaking, where I'm not sure it can do the things that we saw figure demo earlier in the presentation, but it's a very cool robot. And if like the same way that Sora 2 is amazing for the novelty, Unitary is incredible for the novelty. Like most people have never seen a humanoid robot walking around, let alone one doing a backflip that can stand up like this. And if you didn't grow up watching Boston Dynamics videos, you have never seen this before. So it's like this really incredible thing. And if you can get that for $21,000, that's someone's marketing budget. And you just slap your logo on this bad boy. You take it outside. You create a couple of videos. You are going to hit a home run in terms of marketing. So yeah, different approaches.
Starting point is 00:26:02 Like Unitary is definitely the only one that you could buy right now. It's probably the worst in terms of intelligence. But it's, I mean, it's sick. Look at what you can do to it. If you just want someone to wrestle with. If any of you all listen to this and are tempted to buy one, please buy one, because I'm not. And let us know what your experience is like, because I would love to know what it's like to have one of these things in your homes. Getting serious for one final second, I want to highlight something that Brett Adcock made the founder and CEO of Figer when he announced Figure 3 today, which is there is no way humanoid robots scale without AI. And that's what it comes down to. robots don't win if AI wins, and I think it's super important to push both industries forward.
Starting point is 00:26:45 I do not think it's a coincidence at all that Mr. Musk has been so diehard on robots and AI. He's running XAI. He got a two-bill investment from Jensen Huang that we spoke about yesterday. You should definitely go check that episode out. But all in all, these industries are really heavily intertwined with each other, Josh. And it's just amazing to see kind of both industries flourish at the same time. You and I, not too long ago, I think it was about three months ago, said on an episode, I'm getting so tired of new model releases every week. But realistically, we're a bit spoiled because it's such a privilege to be in a world where these models are rapidly advancing at such a quick speed.
Starting point is 00:27:25 And now we're seeing the roots of that happening in robotics. So just all in all, a really exciting time. Yeah, it's amazing. Robotics is a whole different animal. Like, to me, the intelligence part is a solved problem because so many people are tackling it. The difficult thing is can you build these things? Like the world of atoms and manufacturing is so much harder than the digital world of bits. And the intelligence is important, but to me that feels like a solved problem. It's on these very few companies to actually make this a reality.
Starting point is 00:27:54 Like this is a very difficult challenge that far fewer people are willing to take on. So we need figure, we need Tesla, we need unitary, even this like this little thing that's getting kicked around. Like building these things is the hardest part and it's not a given. So, So yeah, really, really optimistic. Grateful for Brett Adcock. Shout out to you, dog. You're putting in some really difficult effort fighting an uphill battle. Yeah, come on the show.
Starting point is 00:28:17 Please come on the show. We'd love to talk to you. But I think that wraps it up today. Is that all we got? That is all we got. That's a robot episode. Thank you all for joining us to talk about our number one geek and latest hobby, robots. These robots are getting scarily more realistic every time we do a video on this, Josh.
Starting point is 00:28:35 and I cannot wait for the Optimus grand release where we'll, I'm sure, do yet another review on these things. If you enjoyed this episode, please like, subscribe and share it with your friends. The feedback we've been getting once again from you guys on new topics that we should talk about or things that we missed has been super. Keep it up. Give us DMs, comment on our YouTube and we will respond to you. And I guess that's it for now. We will see you on the next one.
Starting point is 00:29:01 Peace.

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