U.S. robotics companies push for national strategy, including a central office, to compete with China

Another lost war for US..

Another lost war for US..

Competition doesn't mean lost, but it does get China quaking

quote: The next robotics race will be powered by artificial intelligence.

Not true. There are other more pressing issues, and any form of (on board) processing by robots will be entirely different to the LLM/generative AI stuff that requires all those data centres.

Robots will generally have specific tasks and be autonomous, not linked to external resources. Particularly in the military sector, as any radio frequency is easy to block in war.

Analysis of and interaction with the environment around them, balance and movement, task accomplishment, and power are priorities. AI is not a big part of robotics. Focus on that and you derail your development. They may be doing it as mention of AI opens wallets.

It's a really interesting field. Like 'AI', most benefits will be niche. Not sure there will be a lot of general retail profit in it. The real money will come from military budgets as all governments will be intent on creating Terminators.

I guess the air is beginning to escape from the AI bubble and they want to further monetise tech-as-a-nationalist-thing.

quote: They look fantastic, but they’re not very practical.

Industrial robots have paid the bills in the industry for years, but once you crack the basics of humanoid, the result is far more flexible and far more palatable for public interaction.

quote: He doesn’t think government support will make much of a difference in which country takes the lead.

The money will be very useful, if it gets to the people who are designing and building the next gen stuff. You cannot do this without funding. In countries like the UK, funding is very limited and access to it is heavily restricted. USG funding will go to Trump's mates (Tesla robots etc). The best you can do in poorer countries is theorise, design and hope to get head hunted by someone with cash.

They don't really want a 'national strategy'. They just want some cash and a ban on anything Chinese or foreign. They did this with 5G because Huawei was so far ahead of the pack, and delayed some nations' (including the UK's) roll out by several years.

AI stuff that requires all those data centres.

smaller specialized datasets will be possible and able to be uitlised by robots/autonomous vehicles.

I guess the air is beginning to escape from the AI bubble

As with any other speculative bubble, but what remains are the core fundamentals that were the reason for the bubble in the first place.

Ai will definitely continue to shake up all sectors and robotics is closely following behind.

This is no longer theoretical/hypothetical.

The race is on.

Musk trying to promote his companies and suppress all other competitors!

Musk wants to control US tech companies the way China controls any companies wanting to enter the Chinese market.